THE 
 
 CHHRTER RHD REUSED ORDINSNCES 
 
 CITY OF NEW BRITAIN 
 
 CHARTER OF THE WITTER WORKS, 
 
 STANDING RULES OF' THE COMMON COUNCIL. 
 
 Published by order of Common Council, February 19, 1896. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN: 
 
 PRESS OF HERALD PUBLISHING CO.
 
 CHARTER 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CITY OF NEW BRITAIN. 
 
 2012188
 
 CHAR TER 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CITY OF NEW BRITAIN. 
 
 !S TOOT] ON 
 
 1. Limits of city. 
 
 2. Division Jnto wards, 
 8. Who entitled to vote. 
 
 4. Annual election and officers 
 
 elected at. 
 
 5. Vacancies in office, how filled. 
 (>. Voting lists. 
 
 7. Registrars and their duties. 
 
 8. Voting places and conduct of 
 
 elections. 
 
 9. City officers to be sworn. 
 
 10. Mayor. 
 
 11. Obstructing the Mayor. 
 
 12. Pay of Militia called out by 
 
 Mayor. 
 
 13. Vacancy in office of Mayor. 
 
 14. City Clerk. 
 
 15. Assistant Clerk. 
 1(5. Treasurer. 
 
 17. Auditor. 
 
 18. Sheriff. 
 IS). Collector. 
 
 i'n. ( )fficers to give bonds. 
 
 21. Taxes, how laid. 
 
 22. Common Council. 
 
 2:5. Subjects of city ordinances. 
 
 24. Shuttle Meadow lake. 
 2"). Hoard of health. 
 
 -'11. Approval of ordinances by 
 
 Mayor. 
 '27. By voters of the city. 
 
 25. Members of council not to hold 
 
 lucrative city offices, etc. 
 2S). Appropriations, how made. 
 30. Building lines, 
 
 SECTION 
 
 31. Sewers and drains, 
 
 32. Appropriation of streams. 
 
 33. Damages and benefits for same. 
 
 34. Committee of freeholders. 
 
 35. Benefits, a lien on property. 
 3(5. Sidewalks and gutters,. 
 
 37. To be laid by owners of land. 
 
 38. Ten year grade limitation. 
 
 39. Proceedings if owner neglects 
 
 to lay walk, etc. 
 
 40. Streets and highway. 
 
 41. Highway tax. 
 
 42. Layout of streets and building 
 
 lines. 
 
 43. Damages and benefits, 
 
 44. Board of street commissioners. 
 
 45. To assess benefits and damages. 
 
 46. To be sworn. 
 
 47. Vacancies in said board, how 
 
 filled. 
 
 48. Compensation. 
 
 49. Mayor can remove for cause. 
 
 50. Method of precedure of said 
 
 board. 
 
 51. Sewer assessments. 
 
 52. Limit of sewer assessments. 
 
 53. Benefits to be a lien on prop- 
 
 erty. 
 
 54. Liens. 
 
 55. Appeals from assessments. 
 
 5f>. Appeals, when and how taken. 
 
 57. Re-assessments, when made. 
 
 58. Notice of re-assessment pro- 
 
 ceedings. 
 
 59. Powers of Judges and costs.
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTKIt. 
 
 SKCTION 
 00. City Clerk to keep papers on 
 
 file. 
 
 61. City court. 
 (52 Judge of city court. 
 W. Substitute judge. 
 64. Clerk of city court. 
 (55. Corporation counsel. 
 (5(5. Process in city court. 
 (57. Service of process. 
 (IS. Accommodations for city 
 
 court. 
 mi. Salary of Judge. 
 
 70. Jury trials. 
 
 71. Appointment of jurors. 
 
 72. Police court. 
 
 73. Powers of justices restricted. 
 
 74. Judge not disqualified by resi- 
 
 dence. 
 
 75. Jurisdiction of police court. 
 
 76. Clerk of police court. 
 
 77. Accommodations for police 
 
 court. 
 
 78. Presentments or complaints. 
 
 79. Adjournment of trial. 
 
 80. Police court, fees and costs. 
 
 81. Disposition of fines and costs. 
 
 82. Forfeited bonds. 
 
 83. Commitment to jail or work- 
 
 house. 
 
 84. To reform school, etc, 
 
 So. Service of criminal process. 
 8. Arrest without warrant. 
 87. Jurisdiction In Southlngton. 
 8H. Not to affect the powers of 
 
 Southlngton officers. 
 89. Suspension of judgment. 
 
 SECTION 
 90. Reduction or disallowance of 
 
 fees, 
 '.il. Sureties of the peace. 
 
 92. Fines and forfeitures, how re- 
 
 covered. 
 
 93. Water commissioner*. 
 
 94. Water bonds. 
 
 95. Sewer commissioners. 
 
 SH5. To be trustees of bonds, etc. 
 
 97. Their powers and duties. 
 
 98. Police commissioners, appoint- 
 
 ment of. 
 
 99. Powers and duties. 
 
 100. May summon witnesses. 
 
 101. Service of subpoena. 
 
 102. May issue capias. 
 
 103. Fees of witnesses. 
 
 104. Council to fix salaries of police- 
 
 men, etc. 
 
 1(>5. Fire commissioners, appoint- 
 ment of, 
 
 KXi. Powers and duties. 
 
 107. Present members to be re- 
 
 tained. 
 
 108. Pay of police and tire commis- 
 
 sioners. 
 
 109. Power to purchase; personal 
 - liability. 
 
 110. Qualification. 
 
 111. Present members, term of 
 
 office. 
 
 112. Water, sewer, police and tire 
 
 commissioners. 
 118. Council to fix salaries. 
 
 114. Forms. 
 
 115. Inconsistent acts repealed. 
 
 116. Act when to take effect. 
 
 Resolved by this Assembly : 
 
 city limits. SECTION!. All the inhabitants, being electors of this state, 
 dwelling in the town of New Britain, within the following limits, 
 to wit : 
 
 Commencing at a stone monument three hundred rods due 
 west from the center front wall of the high school building in said 
 town ; thence running due north in a straight line three hundred 
 and seventy-five (375) rods and ten and one-half feet to a monu- 
 ment ; thence at right angles due east in a straight line six 
 hundred (600) rods to a monument ; thence due south in a 
 straight line parallel with said west line to the southerly limits 
 of said town at a stone monument ; thence westerly on said
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 southerly limit of said town to a stone monument ; thence due 
 north in a straight line parallel with said east line to the place 
 of the beginning, being the community hitherto incorporated and 
 known under the name of the City of New Britain are hereby 
 constituted and declared to be and remain forever one and the 
 same body politic and corporate, by the name of the City of New corporate 
 Britain ; to have perpetual succession, to be one person capable 
 of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded in all Powers, 
 suits whatsoever, and of purchasing, holding, and conveying any 
 estate, real and personal, to have a common seal, with power to 
 change the same, and to hold and exercise such powers and 
 privileges exercised by said city as are perpetuated herein, to- 
 gether with all the additional powers and privileges herein and 
 hereby conferred. 
 
 SEC. 2. The City of New Britain is and shall continue to be 
 divided into six wards, designated and bounded as follows, to 
 wit : 
 
 First ward limits : So much of said city as lies southerly and First ward 
 
 limits. 
 
 westerly of a line commencing at the western limit of said city 
 and in the center of Hart street, so called ; thence easterly on 
 the center of said Hart street to the center of Arch street; thence 
 northerly on the centt-r line of said Arch street to the center of 
 Main street ; thence on the center line of said Main street to the 
 center of South Main street ; thence on the center line of said 
 South Main street to the southern limit of said city, shall consti- 
 tute and remain the first ward. 
 
 Second ward limits : So much of said city as lies easterh- Second ward 
 
 limits. 
 
 and southerly of a line commencing at the southern limit of said 
 city and in the center of South Main street, running thence in 
 the easterly boundary of said first ward to the center of Park 
 street ; thence easterly on the center line of said Park street 
 continuing in a straight line to the eastern limits of said city, 
 shall constitute and remain the second ward. 
 Third ward limits : So much of said city as lies northerly, east- Third ward 
 
 , . . . limits. 
 
 erly, and southerly of a line commencing at the same point in 
 the western limit of said city heretofore described as the point 
 where the boundary of the first ward commences, running thence 
 on the northerly boundary of said first ward to the center of Arch 
 street ; thence northerly along the westerly boundary of said 
 first ward to the center of Main street ; thence northerly along
 
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 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 Fifth ward 
 limits. 
 
 the center line of said Main street to the center of Myrtle street ; 
 thence westerly along the center line of said Myrtle street con- 
 tinuing in a straight line to the western limit of said city, shall 
 Fourth ward constitute and remain the third ward. 
 
 limits. 
 
 Fourth ward limits : So much of said city as lies westerly, 
 northerly, and southerly of a line commencing at the same point 
 in the easterly limit of said city heretofore described as the point 
 where the boundary of the second ward ends ; thence running on 
 the northerly boundary of the second ward to the center of Main 
 street ; thence northerly along the northerly boundary of the 
 first ward and the easterly boundary of the third ward and on 
 the center line of said Main street to the center of East Main 
 street ; thence running easterly on the center line of East Main 
 street to the eastern limit of said city, shall constitute and re- 
 main the fourth ward. 
 
 Fifth ward limits : So much of said city as lies northerly and 
 westerly of a line commencing at the same point in the western 
 limit of said city where the boundary of the third ward ends, 
 running thence easterly on the northerly boundary of the third 
 ward to the center of Main street ; thence northerly along the 
 westerly boundary of the fourth ward and the center line of Main 
 street to the center of North street ; thence easterly on the cen- 
 ter line of North street to the center of Sexton street ; thence 
 northerly on the center line of said Sexton street to the center 
 of Lasalle street, so called ; thence westerly on the center line 
 of Lasalle street to the center of McClintock road, so called ; 
 thence northerly on the center line of said McClintock road, so 
 called, to the northerly limit of said city, shall constitute and re- 
 main the fifth ward. 
 
 Sixth ward limits : So much of said city as lies northerly and 
 westerly of a line commencing at the same point in the eastern 
 limit of said city where the boundary of the fourth ward ends ; 
 thence running westerly on the northerly boundary of the fourth 
 ward to the center of Main street ; thence norther!} 7 on the east- 
 erly boundary of the fifth ward to the center of North street ; 
 thence easterly on the southerly boundary of the fifth ward to the 
 center of Sexton street ; thence northerly on the easterly bound- 
 ary of said fifth ward to the center of Lasalle street, so called ; 
 thence westerly on the northerty boundary of said fifth ward to 
 the center of McClintock road, so called ; thence northerly on 
 
 Sixth ward 
 limits.
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 1 1 
 
 the easterly boundary of said fifth ward to the northern limits of 
 said city, shall constitute and remain the sixth ward. 
 
 SEC. 3. Every elector of this state who shall have statedly 
 and continuously resided in said city six months shall thereafter, tions. 
 while such residence continues, and while his name is registered 
 as hereinafter provided, be entitled to vote at all meetings of 
 said city and all meetings of the ward in which he may reside ; 
 provided, that whenever any such voter shall have changed his 
 residence from one ward into another during the thirty days pre- 
 ceding a meeting for the election of any officer, or officers, he 
 shall not be entitled to vote at such meeting in the latter ward, 
 but shall be entitled to vote at such meeting in the former ward 
 in the same manner as though he had not removed therefrom. 
 
 SEC. 4. At the annual election held on the second Tuesday ^ons! al elec " 
 of April, A. D. 1896, and every second year thereafter, the 
 voters of the cit} r shall elect from their number, by plurality of 
 ballots, a mayor, clerk, treasurer, auditor, collector, and a cifc y mcers - 
 sheriff for the city at large, who shall hold their respective of- 
 fices for the term of two years commencing at noon of the third 
 Tuesday of April, and until their successors are elected and 
 qualified. 
 
 On the second Tuesday of April, A. D. 1896, the voters re- 
 sident in each of said wards shall elect, by plurality of ballots 
 from among their number, two councilmen for each ward, who ^"""^ 
 shall hold their respective offices for one year, commencing at 
 noon on the third Tuesday of said April, and until their suc- 
 cessors are elected and qualified. 
 
 On the second Tuesday of April, A. D. 1896, the voters re- 
 sident in each ward of said city shall elect, by plurality of bal- 
 lots from among their number, two councilmen for each ward, 
 who shall hold their respective offices for the term of two years 
 commencing at noon of the third Tuesday of said April, and 
 until their successors are elected and qualified. 
 
 At the elections hereinbefore specified to be held on the second 
 Tuesday of April, A. D. 1896, the ballots shall specify the 
 councilmen voted for for one year, and the councilmen voted for 
 for two years, and annually thereafter, two councilmen shall be 
 elected from each ward, to hold their offices for the term of two 
 years from and after the third Tuesday of April at noon next 
 Succeeding said annual election, and until their successors are 
 elected and qualified.
 
 12 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 First, third 
 and fifth 
 ward alder- 
 men, when 
 elected. 
 
 fo e urth d and On said second Tuesday of April, A. D. 1896, and biennially 
 sixth ward thereafter, the voters resident in the second, fourth, and sixth 
 
 aldermen, 
 
 when elected, wards of said city shall elect, by plurality of ballots from among 
 their number, one alderman in each of said wards, who shall hold 
 their respective offices for the term of two years commencing at 
 noon of the third Tuesday of April next succeeding said annual 
 election, and until their successors are elected and qualified. 
 
 On the second Tuesday of April, A. D. 1896, the voters re- 
 sident in the first, third, and fifth wards of said city shall elect, 
 by plurality of ballots from among their number, one alderman 
 in each of said wards, who shall hold their offices for the term 
 of one year, commencing at noon of the third Tuesday of April, 
 A. D. 1896, and until their successors are elected and qualified. 
 And on the second Tuesday of April, 1897, and biennially 
 thereafter, the voters resident in the first, third, and fifth wards 
 shall elect, by plurality of ballots from among their number, one 
 alderman in each of said wards, who shall hold their respective 
 offices for the term of two years from and after the third Tues- 
 day of April at noon next succeeding said annual election, and 
 until their successors are elected and qualified. 
 
 At the election held on the second Monday of April 1895, 
 under the provisions of the present city charter, the city officers, 
 including aldermen and councilmen, then elected, shall hold 
 office for the term of one year from and after the third Monday 
 of April, 1895, and until their successors are elected and quali- 
 fied. 
 
 All officers elected by the city at large shall be residents of 
 said city, and all officers of the several wards shall be residents of 
 such wards, and shall vacate their offices by removal therefrom. 
 
 SEC. 5. Whenever at any such meeting there shall be no 
 election to an office, by reason of a tie vote, then said meeting 
 shall stand adjourned to the next following Tuesday at the same 
 hour as when first held, and the election to fill such office shall 
 be proceeded with in the same manner and upon the same reg- 
 istry list as on said first day. 
 
 When any vacancy shall occur in any elective office of said 
 city, the common council shall fill said vacancy ; if in the office 
 of mayor, from one of the aldermen of said city ; if in the board 
 of common council, from the electors of the ward in said city 
 from which the former incumbent of said office was chosen : if 
 
 Residence of 
 city officers. 
 
 Vacancy on 
 tie vote, how 
 filled. 
 
 Vacancy in 
 elective of- 
 fice, how 
 filled.
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 13 
 
 in any other elective office, from the electors of said city ; a 
 plurality of ballots shall be sufficient to elect. Any person or 
 persons so elected shall fill the unexpired term and perform all 
 the duties pertaining to said office. All meetings for the pur- 
 pose of filling any such vacancy shall be called and warned by 
 the mayor of said city for that purpose, excepting in case the 
 vacancy to be filled is in the office of mayor, when such meeting 
 shall be called as aforesaid by the clerk of said cit} T . Each new 
 council shall choose, by a majority of ballots from among the Council to 
 
 J J J choose a 
 
 aldermen duly elected and qualified, a president pro tempore of president -pro 
 
 tent, 
 
 the common council, who shall perform such duties as may be 
 hereinafter prescribed. The officers of said city, whether a 
 pointed or elected, shall hold their offices for their respective 
 terms and until their successors are chosen and qualified, unless 
 removed for cause. 
 
 SEC. 6. The registrars of voters of the town of New Britain, 
 in making out the lists now required by law to be made by them, 
 shall group the names of the electors residing in said city under 
 the voting districts in which they respectively reside, and shall 
 arrange the lists of such voting districts in the alphabetical order ^^ voting 
 of the streets in which they reside and according to the number 
 of the residence of each, so that all the voters residing at any 
 and every number on each and every street shall appear on such 
 lists consecutively opposite such number ; and it shall be the 
 duty of said registrars to prepare from such registry lists, sepa- 
 rate lists, authenticated by their signatures, of the electors in 
 each ward, for the use of their deputies in such ward, in per- 
 forming which duty said registrars shall simply transfer to such 
 separate ward lists the names of electors that appear on the town 
 list as residing in such wards ; such lists shall be prepared at 
 the expense of said city, and shall be delivered to such deputies 
 before sunset of the day preceding the annual election. 
 
 SEC. 7. Whenever any annual meeting for the choice of city 
 officers, or any meeting where a vote is to be taken by ballot in lists- 
 the wards of said city, is to be held, the registrars whose duty 
 it is to prepare the registry list or lists, for electors' meetings 
 in the town of New Britain, shall prepare a list as nearly per- 
 fect as is practicable, of the names of the persons entitled to 
 vote in each and every ward of said city at the said city meet- 
 ing, and of the street in which each person resides, and when-
 
 14 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHAKTEK. 
 
 Registrars' 
 
 pay- 
 
 Lists (o be 
 delivered to 
 city clerk. 
 
 Challenged 
 
 votes. 
 
 Examina- 
 tions to he 
 under oath. 
 
 Ward voting 
 places. 
 
 Polls when 
 open and 
 closed. 
 
 Presiding of- 
 ficer, how 
 chosen. 
 
 Voting lists, 
 how kept. 
 
 Voting, 
 method of. 
 
 ever the residence of such person is numbered, the number there- 
 of, which names shall be numerically arranged under their re- 
 spective streets, in the alphabetical order of such streets in the 
 manner set forth in section 6 ; for which services said registrars 
 shall be paid a reasonable compensation from the city treasury, 
 not exceeding four hundred dollars each ; said list or lists shall 
 be delivered by said registrars to the city clerk at least three 
 days prior to such meeting, and shall be open to the inspection 
 of any elector of the said city. The presiding officer of every 
 ward meeting may receive the votes of all persons whose names 
 are on the ward list prepared as aforesaid, unless the right of any 
 such person to vote at such ward meeting is challenged, in which 
 case said presiding officer shall, before receiving such vote, if 
 requested by the challenger, make due inquiry into the right of 
 such person to vote, and hear and determine such challenge, 
 and if of the opinion that such person is legally entitled to vote 
 at such ward meeting, the presiding officer shall receive his vote ; 
 otherwise he shall reject his vote. Every person who shall be 
 examined by an} r presiding officer relative to the right of himself 
 or any other person to vote shall be under oath, which oath the 
 presiding officer shall administer ; and if an}- person when so ex- 
 amined shall be guilty of willful false swearing, he shall be liable 
 to the penalties of perjury. 
 
 SEC. 8. There shall be one place of voting in each ward at 
 each election of officers, designated by the common council, who 
 shall cause notice the reof to be publish> d in a newspaper of 
 said city, or in such manner as said common council, b}' an or- 
 dinance, shall prescribe, not more than four weeks nor less than 
 one week preceding such election. The polls in each ward shall 
 be open from six o'clock in the forenoon until five o'clock in the 
 afternoon, during every annual election. The registrars shall 
 designate from the voters of each ward, by agreement if possi- 
 ble, otherwise by lot, a presiding officer for election and as- 
 sistants to relieve him in the duty of presiding ; said registiars 
 shall be present personally or by deputy, with their voting lists 
 prepared as hereinbefore provided, and shall check thereon the 
 names of all persons whose votes are received. At all elections 
 the names of such officers as each voter is entitled and shall 
 choose to vote for, shall be printed or written on one piece of 
 paper. A ballot-box of the usual construction shall be provided
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 15 
 
 by the common council for each ward, and each person offering 
 to vote shall deposit his vote on the lid of such box. The pre- 
 siding officer shall receive and deposit in the box the ballots of 
 all persons whose names are found on their voting lists by the 
 two registrars, and none others ; providing, however, that such 
 presiding officer shall not receive and deposit the ballot of any 
 person whose name is found on such lists if the right of such nts! rs 
 
 person to vote is challenged and the challenge is sustained. -A-t^u^t. how 
 
 the expiration of the time allotted for voting, the presiding officer 
 
 shall open the ballot-box, publicly count the votes with the aid 
 
 of the counters appointed by the registrars or their deputies, and 
 
 declare the result in open meeting at the polling place in each 
 
 ward. Immediately thereafter a certificate of the result, signed 
 
 by the presiding officer and the counters, shall be deposited in 
 
 the ballot-box, the box sealed and a like certificate shall be 
 
 transmitted, together with the voting lists, and the ballot-box 
 
 containing the ballots received, to the city clerk, which certifi- 
 
 cate shall be evidence of the vote in such ward. The city clerk city clerk to 
 
 , publish and 
 
 shall enter the returns from each ward upon the city records and declare result 
 
 publish the same in the succeeding issue of at least one news- 
 
 paper of said city, and shall therein declare those persons receiv- 
 
 ing the largest number of votes for their respective offices to be 
 
 elected thereto. The presiding officer shall have all the power 
 
 for the preservation of peace and good order in such meetings, 
 
 bv law conferred upon the moderator of town meetings. Any illegal vot- 
 
 ing, penalty 
 person whose name is not on such list as an elector of said city for. 
 
 in such ward, who shall vote for any officer of said city, or any 
 
 person who shall vote or attempt to vote on or in the name of 
 
 any other person whose name is on said list, shall -be punished 
 
 by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hun- 
 
 dred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceed- 
 
 ing three months, or by such fine and imprisonment both. If 
 
 either of said registrars shall, without just or reasonable cause, ( Yut g y b^regis- 
 
 refuse or neglect to discharge any of the duties herein prescribed, [ rs ' P enalt > r 
 
 he shall, on comiction, be punished by a fine of three hundred 
 
 dollars ; and if any person other than the registrars shall make 
 
 any alteration by addition, erasure, or otherwise, in the list pre- Alterations 
 
 of lists, pen- 
 pared by the registrars, or if the presiding officer in any of said "ity for. 
 
 wards at any annual or special election, or any other person 
 having charge of the ballot-box in any of the wards aforesaid, at
 
 16 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 Oath of city 
 clerk. 
 
 Oath of city 
 officers. 
 
 Mayor, 
 powers and 
 duties of. 
 
 Presiding of- 
 ficer. 
 
 Conservator 
 of the peace. 
 
 May commit 
 to prison. 
 
 any such annual or special election, shall allow any person to 
 deposit his vote therein whose name is not on the registry list of 
 said ward, he shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty 
 dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment 
 in the county jail not less than three months, or by such fine 
 and imprisonment both. 
 
 SEC. 9. Ever}' officer of the city shall be sworn before en- 
 tering upon the duties of his office. The form of the oath to be 
 taken by the clerk shall be as follows: "You, A. B., do 
 solemnly swear that you will faithfully perform the duties of the 
 office of clerk of the city of New Britain so long as you are the 
 clerk thereof; that you will make true entries and n cords of all 
 the votes and proceedings of said city and of the common coun- 
 cil thereof; and of such other matters as by law or the ordin- 
 ances of said city are to be recorded in your office, and that you 
 will deliver true copies of the records in } r our office when they 
 shall be required of you, on the receipt of lawful fees therefor, 
 so help you God ;" which oath shall be administered to such 
 clerk by a justice of the peace for the county of Hartford, and 
 thereafter said city clerk shall administer to all the other officers 
 
 of said city the following oath: "You having been 
 
 elected to the office of for the city of New Britain, 
 
 solemnly swear that you will faithfully and honestly perform the 
 
 duties of the office of for the city of New Britain, to the 
 
 best of your judgment and skill, so help you God;" and shall 
 forthwith enter the fact of such administration upon the city 
 records. 
 
 SEC. 10. The mayor of said city shall be the chief executive 
 magistrate thereof, and it shall be his duty to be vigilant in 
 causing the laws thereof to be enforced. He shall preside at 
 all meetings of the common council and all business meetings of 
 th<^ cit}*. He shall have power to administer oaths, to take de- 
 positions and the acknowledgment of deeds. He shall be con- 
 servator of the peace of said city, and shall have authority, with 
 force and strong hand when necessary, to suppress all tumults, 
 riots, and unlawful assemblies, and to arrest, without warrant, 
 and to commit to the city prison, for a time not exceeding 
 twenty-four hours, any person or persons who may be detected 
 in quarreling, brawling, or otherwise behaving in a disorderly 
 manner, to the disturbance of the public peace in said city. He
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 17 
 
 shall also have power to enter into any house, building, or place 
 
 in which he may suspect any disorderly or vagrant persons to be houses 
 
 assembled, and if any such are found therein, to command them 
 
 immediately to disperse, and in case of neglect or refusal to 
 
 obey such command, to commit any such person to the city 
 
 prison for a term not exceeding twenty-four hours ; and he 
 
 shall be authorized to exercise within the limits of said city all 
 
 the powers given to sheriffs and other officers by the general ^ 
 
 statutes and he may at all times require the aid of any sheriff, 
 
 deputy sheriff, constable, watchman, or policeman, or any or all of 
 
 them, together with such other aid as may be necessary ; and 
 
 whenever he shall have reason to believe that great opposition 
 
 will be made to the execution of his authority, he shall have 
 
 power to call out the active militia of said city, or any portion May call out 
 
 the militia. 
 
 of the same, and may call out the regular and supernumerary 
 police force of the city when he may deem it necessary, and 
 may exert all the force necessary to enable him to execute the 
 laws within said citv It shall also be the duty of the mayor toTorecom- 
 
 , " . -, . , mend legisla- 
 
 recommend the adoption of all such measures connected with tion. 
 
 the police, security, health, cleanliness, and ornament of the 
 
 city and the improvement of its government and finances, as he 
 
 shall deem expedient ; to communicate to the common council, at TO report to 
 
 any meeting of that body not later than May 15th, in each year, coum-i'i'.' 1 " 
 
 a general statement of the situation, state, and condition of the 
 
 city in relation to its government, finances, and improvements ; 
 
 which statement shall within five days thereafter be entered in the 
 
 records of the common council and published in such manner as 
 
 said common council shall order. It shall be the further duty of ^^l 1 
 
 the mayor to discharge all duties imposed upon him by the 
 
 charter and ordinances of the citj 7 , the laws of this state and of 
 
 the United States. The mayor shall receive as compensation f i mpensa ~ 
 
 for the performance of the duties of his office the sum of six 
 
 hundred dollars per annum. 
 
 SEC. 11. If any person shall hinder, obstruct, resist, or Obstructing 
 abuse the mayor in the execution of the duties of his office, and, the ma y r - 
 when commanded to assist therein, shall refuse or unreasonably 
 neglect so to do, such offender shall pay a fine not exceeding 
 one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not ex- 
 ceeding six months, or suffer such fine and imprisonment both, 
 at the discretion of the court having cognizance of the offense. 
 
 3
 
 18 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 be acting 
 mayor. 
 
 City Clerk 
 duties of. 
 
 umiM caii'or* SEC - 12 ' The P a > ? of memDers of the active militia during 
 the mayor, service under the call of the mayor as aforesaid, and the penalty 
 for refusing to perform such service, shall be the same as is 
 provided in such cases by the general statutes. 
 
 denf 1 pro r< tem SEC. ^' Whenever the mayor shall be absent from the city 
 derm I a 1 n r shaii or prevented by sickness or other cause from attending to the 
 duties of his office, the president pro tempore of the common 
 council, and in his absence, the senior alderman, that is the 
 alderman who has occupied such office for the longest consecu- 
 tive term, shall act as mayor, and shall possess, exercise, and 
 enjoy all the rights, powers, and duties of the mayor during the 
 continuance of such absence, or inability. 
 
 > SEC. 14. The clerk of said city shall also be clerk of said 
 common council, and shall make and keep true records of all the 
 votes and proceedings of said city and of said common council. 
 ^ e 8Da ^ cause t Qe ordinances of said city to be published ac- 
 be published, cording to law, and when they shall have been so published 
 shall enter upon the record of said common council his certifi- 
 cate of the fact of such publication, including the date thereof. 
 He shall also make upon the records of said common council 
 
 Other duties. 
 
 record of his own acts in serving notices of orders passed by 
 said common council. Said clerk shall also do and perform all 
 such duties as may be required of him by this act or by any or- 
 der, vote, or ordinance of said common council. All records of 
 said clerk shall have the same validity as the records of town 
 clerks, and shall be, either by themselves or by a copy certified 
 by said clerk, evidence in all courts of the truth of the matters 
 therein recorded. 
 
 SEC. 15. The common council may at any time appoint an 
 assistant clerk, who, after having taken the oath by law pro- 
 vided for the clerk of said city, shall, in the absence, death, or 
 disability of said clerk, have power to perform all the duties of 
 his office ; and all records and acts of said assistant shall have 
 the same validity as the records and acts of said city clerk. 
 
 SEC. 16. The treasurer of said city shall have the same rela- 
 tive powers and responsibilities in said city as town treasurers 
 have in their respective towns ; he shall annually, in the month 
 of April, report to the common council, at any meeting of that 
 body during said month, a detailed statement of the receipts of 
 money into the treasury and the expenditures therefrom during 
 
 Validity of 
 records. 
 
 Assistant 
 City Clerk. 
 
 City treas- 
 urer, duties 
 of.
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 19 
 
 the year ending with the last day of March previous thereto, to- 
 gether with an accurate statement of the existing state of the 
 treasury ; which report having been audited by a committee ap- A <f r " U ko^au 
 pointed by the common council, shall be recorded within five dited 
 days, and be published in such manner as the common council 
 shall direct, together with the auditing committee's certificate, 
 
 Shall pay 
 
 under oath, concerning the same. He shall pay all orders of orders, 
 the city auditor, and shall also comply with all ordinances and 
 orders that may be made concerning his office by the common 
 council. 
 
 SEC. 17. The auditor of said city shall draw his orders on the ^ty^auditor, 
 treasurer thereof for the payment only of such bills as shall have 
 been ordered to be paid by the common council and the police 
 and fire commissioners. 
 
 SEC. 18. The sheriff of said city shall, within the limits city sheriff, 
 
 power and 
 
 thereof, have the same power and authority as sheriffs of coun- authority of. 
 
 ties, and shall be liable to the same suits and penalties for 
 
 neglect of duty, and the said city shall be liable for the default 
 
 of such sheriff in his office. Said sheriff shall attend upon the 
 
 the city court when sitting for the transaction of civil business 
 
 only. 
 
 SEC. 19. The collector of said city shall collect every tax city coiiec- 
 
 ill.,, ., ., , , , . ., tor,duties of. 
 
 duly laid by said city, and, having received a warrant for that 
 purpose signed by the mayor of said city, shall have the same 
 power as collectors of town taxes now have, and shall be ac- 
 countable to said city ; and, in case said collector shall not per- 
 form his trust, then on complaint of the common council the 
 mayor shall issue his warrant under his hand directed to the 
 sheriff of said city to collect out of the estate of the negligent 
 collector the sum due from him as previously ascertained by 
 said common council. It shall be the duty of the collector, at 
 the expiration of his term of office, whether by resignation, re- 
 moval, or otherwise, to turn over and deliver to his successor in 
 office all books of account, documents, and papers of every 
 description in any wa}- relating to the office or the business 
 thereof. 
 
 SEC. 20. The treasurer, collector, auditor, clerk of the city, ^ers?' Clty 
 clerk of the city court, and sheriff shall severally give bonds 
 with surety to the mayor of the city and his successors in office, 
 in such amount, manner and form as the ordinances of said city
 
 20 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 Office to be 
 declared va- 
 cant on re- 
 fusal to give 
 bonds. 
 
 Taxes, how 
 laid. 
 
 Common 
 council. 
 
 Valid meet- 
 ings. 
 
 Majority 
 vote neces- 
 sary. 
 
 Powers of 
 
 Common 
 
 Council. 
 
 Nuisances. 
 
 Storing of 
 lumber, 
 steam boil- 
 ers, explosive 
 substances. 
 
 Preservation 
 from fires. 
 
 Erection of 
 buildings, 
 mode and 
 material of. 
 
 shall prescribe for the faithful performance of the duties of their 
 respective offices, and incase of the refusal or neglect of either of 
 said officers to give such bond, his office shall be deemed vacant 
 by such refusal or neglect, and on a declaration to that effect 
 being made to the common council by the mayor, said common 
 council may proceed to fill said vacancy in the manner hereinbe- 
 fore provided. 
 
 SEC. 21. Said city, in legal meeting assembled, shall have 
 power to lay taxes on the polls and ratable estate within the 
 limits of the city for such purposes as the city shall think proper, 
 agreeable to the privileges in this act. 
 
 SEC. 22. The mayor, aldermen, and councilmen of the said 
 city shall constitute and be a body known as the common coun- 
 cil of the city of New Britain. All meetings of said common 
 council duly warned and held, at which a majority of the mem- 
 bers are present, shall be valid meetings, and ma,y proceed to 
 transact any business properly before them, and all meetings at 
 which less than a majority of said council is present shall have 
 power to adjourn to such time as they see fit. All acts of said 
 common council, at any meeting, shall be done by a majority 
 vote of all members present. 
 
 SEC. 23. The common council shall have power, under the 
 restrictions otherwise provided in this act, to make such orders 
 or ordinances as it shall see fit in relation to the following sub- 
 jects within the limits of said city, to wit : 
 
 Nuisances of all kinds in the said city, and their summary 
 abatement by any person by it appointed therefor ; sinks, cess- 
 pools, gutters, drains, sewers, and sewer connections, privies, 
 barns, stables, hog-pens, and the keeping of swine, slaughter- 
 houses, deposits of filth and rubbish ; the going at large in the 
 streets of animals or fowls of every description ; the storing or 
 piling of lumber ; the erection and use of steam boilers ; the 
 keeping, sale, and use of gunpowder, fire-works, nitro glycerine, 
 or other similar explosive substances, and the conveyance there- 
 of through any portion of the city. 
 
 The preservation of said city from fires and from the danger 
 of fires and for that purpose to regulate the mode of building 
 and the materials used for building or altering buildings, to 
 grant permits for the erection, addition to, repair, and enlarge- 
 mant of buildings and to prevent the erection, addi-
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 21 
 
 tion to, repair, or enlargement thereof, without the per- 
 mission of said council ; to regulate the using and ^t&g nd 
 heating of buildings, to establish and designate dis- buildings. 
 tricts of said city within which it shall not be lawful to 
 erect, enlarge, repair, or elevate or into which or within which 
 it shall not be lawful to remove any wooden building, except by ^V wooden 
 permission of said common council or a committee thereof ; the bulldln g s * 
 erection, construction, or use within said city, of buildings 
 which by reason of their structure or use, are or may become 
 unsafe, and to provide for and enforce the disuse, removal, or 
 demolition of such buildings or such parts thereof as are or may 
 
 become unsafe ; the securing of safe and convenient egress in E ** a from 
 
 public build- 
 case of fire or other accident from buildings designed in whole ings. 
 
 or in part for public use, already erected or which may here- 
 after be erected in said city, and the prohibition of the use of 
 such buildings which are or may become unsafe by insufficient 
 facilities of egress or for other cause. 
 
 The markets and commerce of the city ; the inspection of 
 produce brought into the city for sale or transportation ; the sale 
 or offering for sale of unwholesome meat, vegetables, produce, or 
 food of any kind. 
 
 The streets, highways, alleys, walks, and public grounds, and 
 the preservation of all trees and shrubbery therein ; keeping the 
 same free from snow, ice, rubbish, or obstruction of any kind ; 
 the laying out, altering, constructing, grading, and repair of 
 such streets, alleys, highways, walks, and public grounds, the 
 naming of all public streets and the numbering of all lots oYiStsf ring 
 
 thereon. 
 
 ... . ,. Public water 
 
 I he public water-works and the management of the same. works. 
 
 Trespasses in gardens, cemeteries, and other enclosures ; the Trespasses. 
 cleaning of chimneys ; burying grounds and burials ; the pro- Burying 
 
 J J grounds. Pro- 
 
 tection of all buildings from defacement or injury ; the marching tection of 
 
 J * ' buildings. 
 
 and parading of military and fire companies and processions of 
 
 every kind in the public streets ; public assemblages, receptions, 
 celebrations, shows, and music. assemblages. 
 
 The manner of warning meetings of said city and of the com- Warning of 
 mon council, and the times and places of such meetings ; the es- 
 tablishment and maintenance of a police force ; the preservation police force. 
 of order, the observance and enforcement of the laws of the 
 State and the ordinances of the city by means of such police
 
 22 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 force ; the mode of taxation as to taxes levied by said city ; the 
 
 vevaiices n " li censm g an( ^ regulating of public hacks and carnages, and the 
 charges of hackmen, public drivers, cartmen, and truckmen. 
 
 The finances and property, real and personal, of the city ; and 
 the borrowing of money by the city for any purpose for which 
 the city is authorized to lay taxes by this act ; the authentica- 
 tion, execution, and delivery of deeds, grants, and releases of 
 
 city real es- the real estate of the city, the full conveyance or release where- 
 of has been authorized at a legal meeting of the voters of said 
 city. 
 
 street light- The erection of lamp-posts, poles, lamps, and lighting ap- 
 paratus of every description, and the public lighting of the 
 
 streets ; the excavation or opening of streets, highways, and 
 grounds and P u klic grounds for public or private purposes, and the location 
 use of same, of any work thereon, whether temporary or permanent, upon or 
 under the surface thereof ; the depositing therein of building 
 materials of any description, and the removal of buildings upon 
 ^ndforpub- or through the same ; the form of proceedings in taking land for 
 
 public use not otherwise prescribed in this act. 
 
 order 5 &nd ^ ne preservation of public peace and order, the prevention 
 and quelling of tumultuous noises, riots, and disorderly assem- 
 blages ; the conferring upon the mayor and police officers of the 
 cit3 T or town constables of all the powers necessary for such pur- 
 poses ; the prohibition, restraining licensing, and regulation of 
 Reguiationof public sports, exhibitions, and performances ; the punishment 
 sports. o f the resistance, hindrance, or obstruction of public officers in 
 
 canciel V& ^ ne discharge of their duties ; the filling of vacancies in any office 
 appertaining to the city, not otherwise provided for in this act. 
 TO elect offl- The election or appointment of prosecuting attorney, corpor- 
 ation counsel, sewer commissioners, city surveyors, street 
 commissioners, water commissioners, police commissioners, 
 public weighers, fire commissioners, sealers of weights 
 and measures, health officers, inspectors of articles 
 offered for sale, and such other functionaries as are proper for the 
 administration of the affairs of the city. 
 
 Keeping ac- The mode of keeping the accounts of said city ; the provision 
 Printing for for and regulation of all the printing done for said city. 
 
 conduct of The conducting of all elections in matters not expressly regu- 
 elections. 
 
 lated by this act or b}" the laws of the state, and the prevention 
 
 and punishment of illegal voting thereat.
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 The prescribing of the salaries and fees of all officers of said f e a e 1 s arles and 
 city, except as herein otherwise provided ; provided, that no al- 
 derman or councilman shall receive any fee, salary, compensa- 
 tion, or reward for services as such alderman or councilman, ex- 
 cept the president pro tempore of the common council, until the 
 said city shall have a population of thirty thousand inhabitants. 
 
 The particular duties of all officers not expressly defined by 
 this act. 
 
 The regulation of the speed of animals, vehicles, and electric m P {Us 
 cars, and bicycles within the limits of said city, and to provide and ' bicycles! 
 for the cessation of city traffic, stoppage of electric cars, in case 
 of emergency ; to provide for the placing and maintenance of ^^^1 ar 
 fenders on electric cars. 
 
 The providing for the removal from office of any city officer ? emov ce 
 for imcompetency or incapacity, neglect of duty, disobedience 
 of any lawful order of competent authority, misfeasance or mal- 
 feasance in office. 
 
 Licensing and regulating peddling and auctions ; the erection auctions 5 . a ' 
 of awning posts, awnings, and the projection of signs, banners, 
 and flags over, on, or in any highway or street ; the seal of said 
 city ; and said common council may prescribe penalties and for- 
 feitures of goods and chattels for the violation of any such or- 
 ders and ordinances, which penalties and forfeitures may be re- 
 covered by the corporation counsel in an action of debt or other covered, 
 proper action brought in the name of the city of New Britain 
 before the city court of said city, for the use of the city treas- 
 ury. 
 
 The violation of any ordinance or order relative to bathing in Misde- 
 meanors, 
 
 places exposed to public view, to nuisances injurious to health now pro- 
 secuted. 
 
 or safety, illegal voting, obstruction to highways (if malicious), 
 illegal charges of hackmen, weights and measures, indecency, 
 or any order or ordinance designed to prevent vice, immoralit}', 
 or disorder, or the resistance of officers, or the obstrnction or 
 hindrance of any public officer in the discharge of his duties, 
 shall be a misdemeanor, and may be prosecuted as such before 
 the police court of said city, like other offenses, and said court 
 may inflict thereon the penalty named in such order or ordin- 
 ance, and grant a warrant for the execution of the same ; pro- 
 vided, that no penalty or forfeiture of goods other than such as 
 shall indirectly accrue from the abatement of nuisances shall 
 exceed the sum of fifty dollars for a single offense.
 
 24 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 common council shall have power to make, alter, and 
 cleaning of. repeal ordinances requiring the owner or occupant of any build- 
 ing, land, or tenement, to clean and keep reasonably safe from 
 snow and ice the sidewalk in front of the premises, and to make 
 the violation of such ordinances a misdemeanor to be prosecuted 
 before the police court, and to prescribe penalties for the same. 
 Regulation Said common council shall have the power to authorize, regu- 
 financesand late, and control the issuing of bonds of said city to take up 
 
 the issuing of J 
 
 bonds. any and all outstanding bonds, to pay any and all indebtedness 
 
 and all claims against the city of every nature ; to provide 
 means for the payment of the costs and expenses of any and all 
 public works and improvements ; to prescribe the form of the 
 same, their terms, and the time of payment, and to designate 
 the authority by whom they shall be signed, and in general to 
 do and perform all things necessary or convenient for the proper 
 regulation of the cUy's finances and the proper adjustment of 
 its debts, and the providing of funds for all its lawful expendi- 
 tures ; provided, however, that before any such bonds shall be 
 issued, the proposition to issue them shall be submitted to a 
 city meeting especially called and warned for that purpose bv 
 
 , , . . . ' 
 
 the mayor, and a vote shall be taken thereon approving or dis- 
 approving such issue; and provided further, that no such bond 
 shall be issued unless approved by vote of a city meeting 
 specially called and warned for the purpose aforesaid. 
 
 o ., -, > , n i , 
 
 oEC. 24. Said common council shall also have the power 
 to make such orders or ordinances as it shall see fit for the bet- 
 ter protection and preservation of the waters of Shuttle Meadow 
 lake, so called, in the town of Southington, and of all the water- 
 works of said city situate in said town, and to prescribe penal- 
 ties and forfeitures of goods and chattels not exceeding the 
 sum of fifty dollars for a single offense, for the violation of an}- 
 such orders or ordinances ; such penalties and forfeitures to be re- 
 covered in the same manner as the penalties and forfeitures 
 mentioned in the preceding section ; provided, however, that the 
 violation of any such order or ordinance to preserve the purity 
 of the waters of said lake, or to prevent willful injury to said 
 water-works or any part thereof, shall be a misdemeanor and 
 may be prosecuted as such before the police court of said city 
 like other offenses, and said court may inflict thereon the pen- 
 alty named in such order or ordinance, and grant a warrant for 
 the execution of the same. 
 
 issue of 
 proval of 
 
 necessary. 
 
 Protection of 
 
 waterworks.
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 25 
 
 The water commissioners or their representative may enter 
 upon or into the land or buildings of any resident for the pur- 
 pose of shutting off or of repairing the water supply of said property. 
 property, and may call upon the police force to assist or protect 
 them in the discharge of their duty. 
 
 SEC. 25. The common council of said city shall constitute common 
 
 47 council shall 
 
 'a board of health in said citv, and shall have and may exercise constitute a 
 
 board of 
 all power and authority which it shall judge necessary and proper health. 
 
 for the prevention of disease of an} 7 kind, and for the promotion 
 
 of the health of the inhabitants of said city ; and may make and 
 
 cause to be executed all orders for such purpose as it may deem 
 
 proper, and may appoint health committees to carry the same C m " 
 
 into effect. And said common council, or the mayor of the city, 
 
 or any member of such health committee, may cause all filthy 
 
 and putrid substances or matter of any kind which they shall 
 
 think injurious to the health and cleanliness of the city to be re- 
 
 moved at the expense of the proprietor or proprietors, or oc- 
 
 cupant or occupants of the land or building upon or in which 
 
 said substance or matter may be, or upon or from which it ma}* 
 
 arise or come, and for that purpose may enter upon or into all 
 
 lands or buildings in said city ; and the mayor may issue a war- 
 
 rant of distress to the collector of the city to collect such ex- 
 
 pense of such person or persons. 
 
 SEC. 26. Every vote, resolution, order, or ordinance passed 
 by said common council shall be submitted to the mayor for his yet0 ' 
 approval, and if such vote, resolution, order, or ordinance 
 shall be disapproved by him, the same shall be returned to the 
 common council at its next meeting [whether an adjourned, a 
 regular, or a special meeting], with his objections thereto in 
 writing, and if two-thirds of all the members of said Common 
 council, present and absent, shall again pass such vote, resolu- 
 tion, order, or ordinance, the same shall be valid, as if the same 
 had been approved by the mayor. 
 
 SEC. 27. Within sixty days after an ordinance has been Ordinances, 
 
 approval or 
 
 passed, the mayor may call, and if requested in writing bv five disapproval 
 
 . by special 
 
 members of the common council and thirty other voters of the city meeting. 
 city, he shall call a special meeting of the voters of the city to 
 approve or disapprove said ordinance, to be held at such time 
 and place, within ten days thereafter, as the mayor in said call 
 shall designate. Such call shall be by notice published in a 
 
 4
 
 26 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 newspaper of the city, and shall recite the ordinance to be acted 
 upon by such meeting. If a majority of the voters of the city 
 present and voting at such meeting shall vote to disapprove said 
 ordinance, it shall from that time be repealed and void, other- 
 wise it shall continue in force. 
 
 SEC. 28. No member of the common council shall, during 
 
 Members of 
 
 council to 
 
 hold 110 other the period for which he was elected, be appointed to or hold anv 
 city office nor r 
 to be inter- 
 
 ested in any 
 
 contract. 
 
 Appropria- 
 
 tlons, how 
 
 made. 
 
 office in any of the boards of fire, police, water, or sewer coin- 
 missioners, or any other office, the emoluments of which are to 
 be paid from the city treasur} 7 , excepting the office of mayor and 
 the president pro tempore of the common council, as hereinbe- 
 fore provided ; nor shall he become, while a member of the com- 
 mon council, directly or indirectly interested in any contract, 
 the expense or the consideration of which is to be paid under 
 any vote or resolution of the common council ; nor shall he be 
 appointed or permitted to act in carrying into effect any vote, 
 resolution, or matter whatever of a local description, as com- 
 mittee or otherwise, in which he has a direct or special pecuniary 
 interest, or where his property will be directly or especially 
 affected thereby. 
 
 . SEC. 29. ^ ne c mmon council of said city shall annually, in 
 the month of March, and on or before the twenty-fifth day of 
 that month, make a detailed estimate of the expenses of said 
 city, and of each department thereof, during the year ending on 
 the thirty-first day of March next following, and cause the same 
 to be published in each of the daily newspapers of said cit}-. 
 The said estimates, with such explanations and suggestions as 
 the said common council shall deem proper to submit, shall be 
 submitted to a regularly warned meeting of the city to be 
 held within ten days after the time appointed for the annual city 
 election, and shall there, or at an adjourned meeting, be con- 
 sidered and acted upon. If the said meeting approve of the 
 said estimates, it shall authorize the requisite appropriations to 
 be made by the said common council to pay the amount thereof; 
 but if it disapprove of the said estimates, or any of them, it 
 shall make such alterations or amendments therein as it shall 
 judge proper, and shall authorize the appropriations required to 
 pay the sums called for by said estimates so altered or amended 
 by it. And it shall not be lawful for the said common council 
 to make appropriations from the city treasury, or in an}- manner
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 27 
 
 bind said ciiy for a sum in excess of the estimates so approved 
 
 or altered or amended by said meeting, without the sanction of 
 
 the voters of said city. A tax shall be laid at said meeting Tax - 
 
 to meet the appropriations voted, and any additional sum voted 
 
 at any special meeting of said city shall also be provided for by 
 
 a tax laid at said special meeting. The mayor or other execu- fl^TiVam . f ~ 
 
 tive officer shall be held personally liable for the amount of any 
 
 order drawn or obligation given in violation of this section. 
 
 SEC. 30. The common council of said city shall have power Building 
 
 , . I . 1*1 lines. 
 
 to designate a line or lines, on the land adjoining any highway 
 or street in said cit} T , between which line and said highway or 
 street n^ building or part thereof shall be erected or stationed ; 
 provided, such line shall not be more than fifteen feet distant 
 from said highway or street. And any person who shall erect 
 or station any building or part of a building between any line so 
 designated and the highway or street shall forfeit and pay for 
 the use of said city a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, 
 and in addition, all such buildings shall be assessed four-fold 
 in the lists of ratable estate in said city. Said fine may be re- 
 covered in an action of debt or other proper action brought in 
 the name of the said city before the city court thereof. 
 
 SEC. 31. The common council shall have power to lay out, f rains' and 
 construct, and repair sewers and drains wherever it may deem 
 the same necessary thiough or along any street, highway, public 
 or private grounds, and to assess such portions as they may Assessments, 
 deem reasonable of the cost of any such sewer or drain upon the 
 property for the carrying off the sewage, surface, or other 
 drainage of which such sewer or drain may be constructed, or 
 which may be in any way improved or benefited thereb}- and 
 the sums so assessed shall be a lien upon the said property, sewer assess- 
 
 J ' ment Hen. 
 
 and may be foreclosed or collected as provided in section fifty- 
 three of this act. No person shall construct any drain or sewer Sewers and 
 
 , . , drains not to 
 
 of any kind upon and from any premises in said city, to or upon be laid or 
 
 used without 
 
 any highway or street in said city, or use or permit an}' such permission. 
 
 eewer or drain to be used without the permission of the common 
 
 council ; and any person so constructing such drain or sewer, or 
 
 using or permitting such to be used without such permission, 
 
 shall forfeit and pay to use of said city a fine of ten dollars for 
 
 such construction, and a like amount for each day that such 
 
 drain or sewer is so used or permitted to be used.
 
 28 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTKR. 
 
 Damages and 
 
 benefits on 
 
 streams 
 
 taken. 
 
 Appropria- 
 tion of 
 streams, as- 
 sessments 
 how made 
 when an 
 agreement 
 cannot he 
 reached. 
 
 common council of said city is hereby author- 
 ized, whenever in its opinion the public health or sewerage shall 
 require such action, to take, occupy, and appropriate, in such 
 manner as it shall, from time to time, deem expedient, any 
 stream, or part of a stream, natural or artificial, running in or 
 through said city, and to straighten, deepen, or lower the same 
 or lower or remove any or all walls, dams, or other obstructions, 
 to the free and healthy flow of such stream or part of a stream, or 
 enlarge or cause to be enlarged or lowered, any or all culverts, 
 which at any season of the year cause the accumulation of 
 stagnant water, or interrupt in any manner the free and healthy 
 flow of any part of such stream. 
 
 SEC. 33. Whenever said common council shall take action 
 under the foregoing power, it shall appoint a committee to pre- 
 pare a descriptive survey of the improvement contemplated, 
 with a earful estimate of the cost of completing the same, and 
 to agree with the parties interested as to damages and special 
 benefits on account of such improvement ; and the report of such 
 survey and estimate having been accepted and recorded, and 
 such agreement having been ratified, and the sums agreed upon 
 as damages having been paid to the parties entitled thereto, or 
 deposited to their credit in the city treasury, said city may go 
 on to the completion of said improvement, and do all acts 
 necessary or convenient for that purpose without further liabil- 
 ity. 
 
 SEC. 34. But if said common council shall be unable to 
 agree with the parties interested as to the damages or benefits 
 to be assessed on account of such improvement, any judge of 
 the superior court or of the supreme court of errors ma}', on ap- 
 plication of said city, after causing such notice of the pendency 
 of such application as he shall deem just and reasonable, appoint 
 three judicious and disinterested freeholders of the county of 
 Hartford to estimate the damages and benefits resulting from 
 said improvement ; and said committee, having been duly sworn, 
 and having given notice of the time and place of its meeting for 
 the purpose aforesaid, by publishing the same not less than 
 twice in a newspaper published in said city, shall meet at the 
 time and place designated, and having heard all parties in in- 
 terest who shall appear before it, shall determine what parties 
 will be damaged by said improvement in excess of special bene-
 
 NEW UKITAIN CITY CHARTER. 29 
 
 fits, and the amount thereof; also what parties owning or in- 
 terested in lands ; easements, or franchises, within a reasonable 
 distance of said improvement, will receive special benefit over 
 all damage, and the amount thereof, and also what parties, if 
 any, will receive an equal amount of damage and benefit. And 
 thereupon said committee shall report in writing to the said ^report to 
 judge, who may confirm, correct, or set aside said report, Judge- 
 as he may deem just, in which latter case said committee, or a 
 new one to be then appointed by said judge, shall pioceed as 
 before, and said report being finally accepted by said judge, 
 shall be recorded by the clerk of the superior court for Hartford 
 county, and the award of damages and benefits therein con- 
 tained shall be final between the parties ; all papers connected 
 with said case, by whomseover held, shall then be delivered to 
 the clerk of the city of New Britain, who shall keep the same on 
 file for the public inspection, and said damages being paid or de- 
 posited as before provided, said city may go on to complete 
 said public improvement and do all acts necessary or convenient 
 for that purpose without further liability in the premises. 
 
 SEC. 35. All amounts due to said city as special benefits special bene- 
 under the preceding sections, whether reached by agreement or lected. 
 assessment, may be collected by warrant under the hand of the 
 the mayor of said city, directed to the collector thereof, who 
 shall enforce the same in the same manner as tax warrants are 
 served and enforced. Every such amount shall also be and re- Benefits, a 
 
 lien upon the 
 
 mam a lien upon the land or other property with reference to property, 
 which it was made, and said lien shall have the same validity 
 and effect, and be enforced in the same way as provided in sec- 
 tion fifty-three of this act. It is further provided that in no 
 case, either of agreement or assessment, shall the aggregate 
 amount of special benefits exceed the cost of such improvement to^xcfe^the 
 including damages paid and construction expenses as estimated cost> 
 by the committee aforesaid. 
 
 SEC. 36. The common council shall have power from time to s j, d t te r alk and 
 time to designate and fix the course, width, height, and grade grades, 
 of all sidewalks and gutters upon the streets and highways of 
 said city, and may, at the expense of said city, cause any of the 
 crosswalks in said city to be raised, flagged, paved, or made Crosswalks. 
 in a suitable manner.
 
 30 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 iaid l b g ' S l be 
 
 property 
 
 owners. 
 
 Common 
 limit time 
 tion'of. 
 
 non-resi 
 dents. 
 
 sidewalks, 
 
 etc., council 
 
 may adjust 
 
 the expense 
 
 of. 
 
 ^ EC< ^' ^ a ^ common council may, from time to time, or- 
 
 r ^ ie owner or owners of the land and buildings fronting on 
 8 uch sidewalks and gutters, at their own expense, to make such 
 sidewalks, and gutters, on their several fronts, according to the 
 course, width, height, and grade designated as aforesaid ; and 
 also to curb, flag, or pave the same in such manner as the com- 
 mon council shall direct ; and also to provide and erect such 
 railings or guards upon and along said walks as public safety 
 may require. And said common council may limite such time as 
 it may deem reasonable for so fencing, paving, or flagging, rail- 
 ing and curbing such sidewalks and gutters as aforesaid, among 
 the different persons having an interest in the lands or buildings 
 holden as aforesaid ; and whenever the owner or owners of an} r 
 i an( j or buildings shall not reside within the limits of the city, 
 notice in writing to the occupant or occupants, or persons hav- 
 ing the care thereof, of any such order shall bo sufficient notice 
 thereof to all persons interested therein. 
 
 ^ ECi **8. Whenever a sidewalk has been laid by an adjoin- 
 lr} % land-owner under any order of the common council of said 
 c *^' an( * u P on a S rSL &Q furnished by competent city authority, 
 and it is deemed necessary by said common council, at any time 
 within ten years thereafter, to alter or change such grade and 
 relay such sidewalk, such alteration or change of grade and re- 
 laying of sidewalk shall be done at the expense of the city ; 
 provided, that in all cases where an alteration or change of 
 grade, or the relaying of any sidewalk is made necessary by an 
 alteration or change of any street line, the expense thereof 
 shall be chargeable as is now provided by law. The provisions 
 of this section shall extend and apply to sidewalks already 
 formed, and flagged or paved in compliance with the orders of 
 the common council. 
 
 SEC. 39. If any owner or owners of any such land or build- 
 
 . 
 
 ings shall neglect to make, pave, rail, flag, or curb any such 
 
 ., 
 
 sidewalk or gutter, in such manner, and within such time as the 
 common council shall direct and limit, the said common council 
 maj 7 appoint and employ some suitable person to do the same, 
 and may adjust and liquidate the expense thereof, and order 
 the same to be paid by such owner or owners neglecting as 
 aforesaid. In cases where the land or buildings fronting such 
 sidewalks or gutters shall be holden for a term of years, or any
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 31 
 
 other estate less than a fee simple, said common council may, 
 by its order, apportion in such manner as it shall judge right, 
 the expense of raising, grading, forming, flagging, paving, or 
 making such sidewalks and gutters among the different persons 
 
 having an interest in the land or building holden as aforesaid. Cost of walks 
 
 to be a lien 
 Thereupon the mayor of said city may issue a warrant of dis- upon the 
 
 property. 
 
 tress, authorizing the cit}' collector to collect of said owner or 
 owners the sums ordered to be paid by them respectively as 
 aforesaid, and such sums, with the interest thereon, shall be a 
 lien or real encumbrance upon the land and buildings in refer- 
 ence to which such sums shall have been expended, to be en- 
 forced in like manner as if said land and buildings were mort- 
 gaged to said city to secure the payment thereof : provided, tobe S re^ hen 
 however, that such lien shall not continue to exist for a period made andre- 
 longer than sixty days after the completion of the work on ac- leased - 
 count of which it exists, unless, within that period, a certificate 
 signed b}- the mayor of said city or the clerk of said common 
 council, describing the premises on which such lien exists 
 and the amount claimed by said cit} T as a lien thereon, shall be 
 lodged with the town clerk of the town of New Britain ; and 
 provided, further, that such lien shall cease to exist when- 
 ever a certificate to that effect, signed by the mayor or clerk 
 of the common council for the time being, shall be lodged with 
 said town clerk. All such certificates said town clerk shall re- 
 cord with the deeds of land. 
 
 SKC. 40 The common council of said city shall have sole Highways, 
 
 powers of 
 
 and exclusive authoritv and control over all streets and high- council in re- 
 ference to. 
 ways and over all parts of streets and highways, now or 
 
 hereafter existing within the limits of said city, and shall 
 have sole and exclusive power to lay out, open, make, dis- 
 continue, alter, repair, maintain, grade, and drain all high- 
 ways and streets now existing or hereafter to be made or dis- 
 continued within the limits of said city ; and no person shall 
 open within the limits of said city any public way, except under 
 and by virtue of an order of said common council ; and said 
 common council shall have power to elect, annually, a street 
 commissioner for said city, who shall hold his office for one year 
 from and after his election, unless removed for cause ; and said 
 common council shall define by proper ordinances and orders 
 the powers and duties of the commissioner, and shall fix and 
 designate his compensation.
 
 32 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 Town appro- 
 priations for 
 highways. 
 
 Aldermen 
 and select- 
 men to ap- 
 portion. 
 
 County com- 
 missioner to 
 have decid- 
 ing vote. 
 
 Town to care 
 for bridges. 
 
 Street lay- 
 outs, etc., 
 notice of 
 hearing. 
 
 Publication. 
 
 Committee 
 on lay-out. 
 
 SEC. 41. In all cases when a tax shall be laid and collected 
 or a sum of money shall be appropriated by the town of New 
 Britain, for the purpose of making and repairing the highways 
 and roads in said town, it shall be the duty of the selectmen of 
 said town, together with an equal number of the aldermen 
 of said city, to determine by a major vote of the whole number 
 the portion thereof which shall be applied for the making and 
 support of the highways of said town within the limits of said 
 city ; and in case the selectmen and aldermen cannot agree by a 
 major vote, as aforesaid, upon such apportionment, the county 
 commissioner of Hartford county residing nearest to said city 
 shall be called in to give a deciding vote. The sum thus appor- 
 tioned shall be paid into the treasury of said cit}- ; and said town 
 shall not be obliged to make or repair any highwa}* in the limits 
 of said city ; provided always, that the town of New Britain 
 shall be liable to make and repair all bridges in said town to the 
 same extent as if this act had not been passed. 
 
 SEC. 42. Before the common council shall determine to lay 
 out, alter, extend, enlarge, discontinue, or change anj* highway, 
 street, public walk, or public avenue, or designate any building 
 line in said city, it shall cause a notice, signed by the mayor of 
 said city or the clerk of said council, describing in general terms 
 such proposed lay-out or alteration or designation, and specify- 
 ing a time and place when and where all persons whose land is 
 proposed to be taken therefor ma}' appear and be heard b} T said 
 common council in relation thereto to be published not less 
 than two times in not more than one daily newspaper published 
 in said cit}-, at least ten days before the time fixed in said no- 
 tice for such hearing ; and such publication of said notice shall 
 be legal and sufficient notice to all persons and corporations 
 whose land is proposed to be taken by such lay-out or altera- 
 tion. At the time and place mentioned in said notice, and at 
 any meeting adjourned therefrom, said common council shall 
 hear all the parties in interest who may appear and desire to be 
 heard in relation thereto. 
 
 SEC. 43. If after such hearing, said common council shall 
 resolve to lay out, alter, extend, enlarge, discontinue, or change 
 such street, highway, walk, or avenue, or designate such build- 
 ing line or lines, it shall appoint a committee whose duty it 
 shall be to make such lay-out or alteration, and designate such
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 33 
 
 building line or lines, and report in writing its doings to said 
 common council, which report shall embody a descriptive sur- 
 vey of such street, highway, walk, avenue, line, or lines desig- 
 nated. If said report shall be accepted and approved by said 
 common council, it shall at once be referred by said common 
 council to the board of street commissioners, to estimate and 
 appraise the damages, or benefits, as the case maybe, resulting Damages and 
 or accruing to any person or persons from the taking of such 
 land for public use as aforesaid, or from such lay-out, alteration, 
 extension, enlargement, discontinuance, change, or designation 
 of such line or lines. 
 
 SEC. 44. Said board of street commissioners shall 
 six freeholders of the city of New Britain, who shall not 
 members of the common council. The mayor of said city of pointed. 
 New Britain shall, by and with the consent of three of the al- 
 dermen thereof, on or after the third Wednesday of April, 
 1896, appoint two members of said board who shall hold office 
 for the term of one year, two who shall hold office for two years, 
 and two who shall hold office for three years, from the first 
 Wednesday of May, 1896, and shall annually thereafter appoint, 
 in the manner above provided, two members of said board who 
 shall hold office for the term of three years from the first Wed- 
 nesday of May of the year in which they are so appointed, 
 and until their respective successors shall be appointed and 
 qualified, unless removed for cause, and the appointment of the 
 members of said board shall be made in such a manner as to 
 divide the membership thereof as nearly as may be, equally be- 
 tween the two leading political parties for the time being. 
 
 SEC. 45. Said board of street commissioners shall act as a T O assess 
 court for the assessment of betterments and the appraisal of appra 1 t s s e and 
 damages ; provided, the common council shall have power to damages- 
 pass ordinances not inconsistent herewith, prescribing the man- 
 ner of procedure in such assessment and appraisal. 
 
 SEC. 46. The members of said board shall be sworn by the Boardof 
 clerk of said city to a faithful and impartial discharge of t&cfrSSa^tSre' 
 duties, and a certificate of such appointment, and the admin- <i ualif y- 
 istration of such oath, shall be made and recorded in the rec- 
 ords of the city . 
 
 SEC. 47. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in said board of Vacancy in 
 
 -, i 11 i ^11 T ,1 .1 , board, how- 
 
 Street commissioners, it shall be filled in the manner provided filled. 
 
 5
 
 84 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 aforesaid for the appointment of members, and whenever more 
 Di*quaiiflca- than one of the members of said board shall be disqualified, by 
 interest or otherwise, from acting in any case before said board, 
 the mayor of said city, by and with the consent of any three of 
 the aldermen of said city, may appoint one or more disinterested 
 freeholders of said city to fill the place or places of the mem- 
 ber or members so disqualified, and such persons having been 
 sworn by the clerk of said city to a faithful and impartial dis- 
 charge of their duties, and a certificate of such appointment, 
 and the administration of such oaths having been recorded in 
 the records of said city, all the proceedings before said board 
 shall be as now provided for in this act. 
 compensa- SEC. 48. The persons appointed in accordance with the pre- 
 
 tion. 
 
 ceding section shall receive the same compensation as the reg- 
 ular members of said board, but they shall act only in the cases 
 for which they were appointed, and in all other cases the regu- 
 lar members of said board shall act. 
 
 Mayor may EC 49 The mayor of said city, by and with the consent 
 remove. J J J 
 
 of any three of the aldermen, may remove any member of said 
 board for cause. 
 Appraisal of SEC. 50. In all cases when it becomes necessary to estimate 
 
 damages and 
 
 benefits, how and appraise the damages or benefits, as the case may be, re- 
 made. 
 
 suiting or accruing to any person or persons from the taking of 
 
 land, or any interest therein, for public use, or from the la} 7 - 
 ing out, alteration, construction, extension, enlargement, dis- 
 continuance, or change of any street, highway, public walk, 
 sewer or avenue, or designation of any building line or lines, as 
 provided in the charter of said city of New Britain, or when- 
 ever the common council shall order the paving of an}" street or 
 highway, or any part thereof, the common council shall formally 
 refer the matter to the board of street commissioners, together 
 with the order of the common council under which said change 
 or improvement is made, accompanied by suitable maps or 
 written description, clearly explaining the contemplated improve- 
 ment, and showing the adjoining land and owners thereof, and 
 shall then, before making any assessment of damages and benefits, 
 pe^sonsiii- g* ve reasonable notice to all persons interested in said proposed 
 improvement of the time and place when and where it will meet 
 for that purpose ; such notice shall be deemed reasonable and 
 sufficient if signed by the members of said board, or a majority of
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITT CHARTER. 85 
 
 them, and published in the same manner as provided to be done 
 by the common council in section fort}' two of this act, or if given 
 in such other manner as by an ordinance of the common coun- 
 cil is now or may be prescribed ; said board shall meet at 
 the time and place designated in its said notice, and at such 
 other times and places as it may adjourn therefrom, and all 
 parties in interest may appear before said commissioners and be 
 heard with witnesses relative to the amount of damages or bet- Hearing, 
 terments, or both, to be appraised or assessed to them re- 
 spectively, and said commissioners shall examine said parties 
 and witnesses under oath ; thereupon said board shall proceed 
 to assess all betterments or benefits, and to appraise all damages 
 therefor to the persons liable to such betterments or entitled to 
 such damages, including the damages for building lines in case 
 of new streets or alteration of existing streets, upon the proper 
 parties or land specially benefited by said proposed improve- 
 ment, in proportion to the benefits or damages to each respec- mmst'not ex- 
 tively ; provided, that the whole amount of benefits assessed for ge nnd d the " 
 any particular lay-out, alteration, designation, or other improve- i^fprove^ 6 
 ment shall not exceed the whole amount of damages assessed ments - 
 on account of the same lay-out, alteration, designation, or im- 
 provement and the estimated cost of constructing and com- 
 pleting said improvement, which estimate said board shall make 
 and take into consideration in its assessments as provided in 
 this section, and shall also embody said estimate in the report of 
 its doings, which report shall be made as soon as may be to the 
 
 .,...,..,., . , Council may 
 
 common council of said city, which may accept and adopt said re- adopt or re- 
 port or return the same to said board for reconsideration and cor- port of th?" 
 rection ; provided, however, that if after said report has been re- 
 turned to said board for reconsideration and correction, and upon 
 its further return to said common council, said common council 
 shall be of the opinion that it will not be for the best interest of 
 said city to make said proposed improvement on account of the 
 expense thereof, it ma}-, unless work upon said improvement 
 has been actually begun, accept said report and discontinue discontinuT 
 further proceedings in regard to the proposed improvements, proceedlngs 
 without liability to any person or corporation interested therein, 
 and in case of such discontinuance no right of action shall accrue 
 to said city to recover an}' betterments assessed in said report 
 on account of such proposed improvement ; upon the accept-
 
 36 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 Record to b ance an( j adoption of said report, the clerk of the common 
 
 made by 
 
 clerk of the council shall record the same in the records of the common 
 
 common . . 
 
 council. council, and said common council shall cause a notice, signed 
 by the mayor or clerk of said common council, containing 
 the names of the persons thus assessed, with the amounts of 
 
 Publication, their respective assessments, to be published not less than two 
 times in not more than one daily newspaper published in said 
 city, and such publication shall be deemed to be legal and suf- 
 ficient notice to all persons interested in such assessments, and 
 the same shall thereupon immediately become due and payable. 
 
 Payment of The common council shall order the damages thus assessed and 
 
 damages. 
 
 determined to be paid to the persons to whom they respectivel}' 
 Damages not belong out of the treasury of the citv ; provided, that if any 
 
 tHk.Mitobe , ,, , 
 
 deposited person shall refuse or neglect to receive the amount so round 
 urer. due and ordered to be paid to him, the same shall be deposited 
 
 in the city treasury, to be paid to the person entitled to receive 
 it whenever he shall apply for the same. And the descriptive 
 survey before mentioned, being signed by the ma3 - or or person 
 lawfully acting in his stead, and entered upon the records of 
 said common council, and the damages assessed having been 
 paid or deposited as aforesaid, said highway, street, public 
 walk, or building line shall be and remain for the purpose for 
 which it was laid out or designated. 
 Sewer assess- g EC< 51, Upon the execution of any order of the common 
 
 ments, how J 
 
 made. council of said city for the construction of any lateral branch or 
 
 connecting public sewer, there may be assessed by the board of 
 street commissioners of said city, upon all persons whose prop- 
 erty is, in the judgment of said board, especially benefited 
 thereby, a reasonable part of the expense of such lateral branch 
 or connecting public sewer, and of the main or trunk sewer into 
 and through which such lateral branch or connecting sewer is 
 - di scnar g e d ? cdways provided, that no person shall be assessed 
 r 8ewer P u rp ose8 under this act beyond the amount to which 
 
 flts - his property is especially benefited, whether the property on ac- 
 
 count of which such assessments are made be located along the 
 line of a main or trunk sewer, or of a lateral branch or connect- 
 ing sewer. 
 
 not to 8 wtceed ^EC. ^' ^ P erson owning land fronting on the line of a 
 
 11.75 per foot, street in which a sewer is constructed shall be assessed more 
 than one dollar and seventy-five cents per front foot of said
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 37 
 
 land, unless in the opinion of said street commissioners the 
 
 owner thereof is the owner of land in the rear that will be 
 
 specially benefited by said sewer. No assessment or better- ^ e t ^^ 
 
 ments shall be made until the sewer on which assessments are andcoi"ecfed. 
 
 based shall be completed, and no assessment of benefits for sewer 
 
 purposes shall be collectible until the completion of the sewer for 
 
 which the party or parties are assessed. 
 
 SEC. 53 The assessments of benefits made by said board Assessments 
 shall be and remain a lien or real incumbrance upon the land 
 upon which they are respectively made, and shall take prece- 
 dence of all other liens or incumbrances thereon (except taxes 
 due the state), and the lands, with the buildings thereon, on 
 which any such lien may exist, shall be liable to be foreclosed 
 in the same manner as if said lien were a mortgage on such 
 lands and buildings in favor of said citj" to secure the amount of 
 such assessments ; provided, however, that such lien shall not Liens, how 
 
 . , . . . . ,, continued 
 
 continue to exist for a period longer than sixty days after the and released, 
 last publication of the notice thereof as aforesaid ; unless within 
 that period a certificate, signed by the mayor of said city or the 
 clerk of said common council, describing the premises on which 
 such lien exists and the amount claimed by said city as a lien 
 thereon, shall be lodged with the town clerk of the town of New 
 Britain ; and provided further, that such lien shall cease to ex- 
 ist whenever a certificate to that effect, signed by the mayor 
 or clerk of the common council for the time being, shall be 
 be lodged with said town clerk. All such certificates said town 
 clerk shall record with deeds of land. Such assessments may Assessments, 
 also be collected by warrant, under the hand of the mayor 
 said city, in the same manner as town taxes are by law col- 
 lected. 
 
 SEC. 54. In all cases where liens are created on account 
 public improvements of any kind in said city, such liens shall, 1 n ken Peal isj 
 if an appeal shall be taken from the appraisal of damages or as- 
 sessments of benefits, or both, continue to exist for a period of 
 sixty days after the passage of the final decree of the court or 
 judge having jurisdiction of such appeal, or after termination of 
 the appeal proceedings, but not longer, unless within such time 
 a certificate, signed by the mayor of said city or the clerk of the 
 common council thereof, describing the premises on which such 
 lien exists, and the amount claimed by said city as a lien there-
 
 38 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 on, shall be lodged with the town clerk of the town of New 
 
 Appeals from Britain ' 
 
 the estimates E c. 55. All persons aggrieved by the estimate of the board 
 
 of the board * 
 
 of street com- o f street commissioners of any damage caused by the layout, 
 
 mlssloners. , . , 
 
 discontinuance, alteration, or enlargement of any highway or 
 street, or the designation of building lines, and all persons ag- 
 grieved by the assessment of benefits consequent thereon, or 
 consequent upon the construction of any sewer or drain by the 
 
 Shall be ' , 
 
 made by peti- common council, may within ten days after notice ol sucn esti- 
 
 tlon within . , * ., 
 
 ten days. mate or assessment, apply by petition to any judge ot tne 
 court of common pleas of Hartford county for a re-estimate of 
 such damages or re-assessment of such sum ordered to be paid 
 
 heard by a by them, and such appeals may he heard by said judge, but 
 
 if desired. shall upon the motion of any party thereto or any person inter- 
 
 Appeais ested therein be referred to a committee for hearing. 
 
 P r misais"of SEC - 56 - Appeals may be taken from the assessments of 
 benefits on ly; but ^ if taken froni tQe appraisal of damages, 
 sna ^ " 3e ^ rom tae 8a ^ appraisal and also from the assessment of 
 
 of benefits, benefits made at the same time and for the same public work. 
 As many of the parties interested as may choose to do so may 
 join in such appeal ; and when separate appeals are taken by 
 
 tions, how to different parties from one assessment and appraisal, all such 
 
 be drawn and 
 
 when return- appeals shall be heard and tried as one cause. When an ap- 
 
 able. 
 
 peal shall be taken said board shall instruct and aid the cor- 
 poration counsel in the matter of said appeal until the same 
 shall be determined. Such appeal shall be taken within ten 
 days after public notice shall be given of such appraisal or as- 
 sessment, and shall be by a suitable petition in writing, setting 
 forth the whole of said assessment appealed from, and asking 
 for a reappraisal and re-assessment, or for a re-assessment only, 
 with a citation attached thereto, signed by any authority au- 
 thorized to sign writs, returnable before said judge at two 
 o'clock p. m. on the day three weeks subsequent to the day on 
 which public notice of said appraisal shall have been given ; and 
 said citation shall be served upon the clerk of said city at least 
 
 six days before the return thereof. 
 
 Re-assess- K n 
 
 ments, when SEC. 57. If, upon the hearing of any appeal, said judge or 
 
 to be made. . J 
 
 committee shall find cause to alter said assessment, or said ap- 
 praisal and assessment, then said judge or committee shall pro- 
 ceed to re-assess the whole amount of the damages or cost of
 
 NKW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 89 
 
 construction, or both, upon the persons or land specially bene- 
 fited. 
 
 SEC. 58. If the judge or committee hearing said appeal ^"won'a^d 
 shall alter said assessment, or said appraisal and assessment, k w given, 
 as aforesaid, then said judge and committee shall cause notice 
 of the pendenc}* of the proceedings before him to be given to all 
 persons interested in said improvement, which notice shall be 
 by citation served upon such persons or left at their usual place 
 of abode, giving such time for appearance and served in such 
 manner as said judge or committee shall direct, or by publica- 
 tion in not more than one dail}" newspaper published in said 
 city, for such time in said form as said judge or committee shall 
 direct. 
 
 SEC. 59. Said judge shall have, for the purpose of dispos- ?f d w g ^ r f n * p . 
 ing of said appeal, all the power of the superior court, and may P ea i cases - 
 render judgment thereon, and may tax costs in favor of either TO tax costs, 
 party, and issue execution for said costs, to be taxed as upon 
 civil process in the superior court. 
 
 SEC. 60. Said judge shall, when the proceedings in any case Judge to re- 
 
 J J turn papers 
 
 arising under this act are closed, return all papers connected *** clt y clerk, 
 with the case to the clerk of said city, to be by him kept on file. 
 
 SEC. 61. The court now existing under the name of the city Oity court, 
 court of the city of New Britain shall continue to be holden un- 
 der said name on the first Monday of every month, commencing 
 at two o'clock in the afternoon of said day ; said court shall 
 have power to adjourn from time to time, and shall have original 
 and final jurisdiction in all civil causes, and over all suits in Jurisdiction, 
 equity (excepting suits for relief against any cause depending 
 or judgment rendered in the superior court, or court of common 
 pleas), which shall be brought before it according to law, in 
 which the debt, damages, or matter in demand exceeds the 
 jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, and does not exceed the 
 sum of five hundred dollars ; provided, the cause of the proceed- 
 ings in equity originated and one or both of the parties reside 
 within the limits of said town of New Britain, and the premises 
 in question, in cases of foreclosure or other proceedings relat- 
 ing to real estate, shall be situated in said town ; but said court 
 shall have jurisdiction of all cases brought to recover penalties 
 or forfeitures under the orders or ordinances of said city or the 
 provisions of this act. And in all cases in which the matter in
 
 40 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 Practice and 
 proceeding. 
 
 Judge, 
 chosen by 
 general as- 
 sembly. 
 
 Term of 
 office. 
 
 Assistant 
 judge chosen 
 by general 
 assembly. 
 
 Assistant 
 judge, 
 powers of. 
 
 Substitute 
 judge, pay of. 
 
 demand shall exceed the sum of three hundred dollars an ap- 
 peal from any final judgment rendered therein shall be had and 
 allowed to either party, upon giving bond, with surety to the 
 satisfaction of the judge of said court, to the next superior 
 court of the county of Hartford. 
 
 The course of practice and manner of proceeding in said 
 court shall be conformable to that in the superior court so far as 
 is practicable, and all statutory provisions regarding the trial, 
 disposition of, and mode of proceeding in cases in the superior 
 court shall be applicable, so far as is practicable, to cases in 
 said city court, except otherwise herein provided. 
 
 SEC. 62. There shall be a judge for said court, who shall be 
 chosen by the general assembly ; he shall enter upon the duties 
 of his office on the first Monday of July nexi following his said 
 election, and shall hold the same for a period of two years, and 
 until another is chosen and sworn in his stead, and the oath to 
 be taken by said judge shall be the same mutatis mutandis, as 
 the oath provided by law to be taken by executive and judicial 
 officers. 
 
 SEC. 63. There shall also be an assistant judge for said 
 court, who shall be chosen by the general assembly, and shall 
 hold office for the same term as the judge thereof, and shall be 
 qualified in the manner provided by law for the qualification of 
 said judge. 
 
 He shall have the powers and perform the duties of the judge 
 of said court during the absence, inability, or disqualification of 
 such judge, and in case of the death or resignation of such 
 judge he shall continue to perform the duties until the end of 
 the term. 
 
 In case both judge and assistant judge shall be disqualified or 
 unable to act in an}* civil cause, either the judge or clerk of said 
 court may request in writing the judge of the city court of the city 
 of Hartford, or the judge of the city court of the city of Meriden, 
 or the judge of the city court of the city of Middletown, or the 
 judge of the town court of Bristol, to act in place of the judge 
 of said city court, and said judge, while so acting, shall have all 
 the powers and perform the duties of the judge of said court 
 during such disqualification, absence, or inability of the judge 
 or assistant judge, and shall be paid while so acting the sum of 
 seven dollars and fifty cents per diem from the treasury of said 
 city.
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITT CHARTER. 41 
 
 SEC. 64. Said court shall have power to appoint and swear uy court"? e 
 a clerk of said court, to continue in office during the pleasure of 
 said court, who shall as to matters relative to his office as clerk 
 of said court have the same power and authority and be entitled 
 to the same fees as clerks of superior courts, and the oath to be Fees - 
 taken by the clerk shall be the same, mutatis mutandis, as the 
 oath provided by law to be taken by clerks of superior courts. 
 It shall be the duty of the clerk of said city court, upon the allow- 
 ance of any appeal from said court, to make a true and attested 
 copy of the record in such cause for the party appealing, and he 
 shall receive therefor such fees as are or may be allowed by law 
 to the clerks of the superior court for copies. 
 
 SEC. 65. The common council of said city of New Britain 
 shall have power to appoint an attorney, who shall be counsel 
 to the corporation, also an assistant attorney to act in his ab- appointed. 
 sence, or at his request, both of whom shall be sworn to a faith- 
 ful discharge of the duties of their office, and such attorney or JJj[|^^ Ild 
 corporation counsel shall have power to conduct all civil cases 
 and matters of every description in which the city is interested, 
 and to bring civil actions, and to defend civil actions and pro- 
 ceedings of every name and nature in the name of the city of 
 New Britain before all courts, and shall appear in all civil 
 actions brought for or against the city ; additional counsel to as- Additional 
 
 counsel, how 
 
 sist the corporation counsel may be employed by the latter only employed. 
 by consent of the mayor. 
 
 The common council of said city of New Britain shall also attorney, 
 have power to appoint a prosecuting attorney, who shall prose- pointed. 
 cute all criminal matters and cases before the police court, and 
 shall have all the powers of grand jurors of towns. In case o 
 absence or inabilit}- of the prosecuting attorney to act, the as- 
 sistant attorney for said city shall have all the powers a/id per- Assi |y a t 1 t a ^. t t " 
 form all the duties of prosecuting attorney during such absence as 
 
 or inability, and shall receive in compensation for his services, when. 
 
 Compensa- 
 
 while so acting, the fees allowed by law to grand jurors. tion. 
 
 u -j ., . . ^, Office of cor- 
 
 baicl common council may appoint the same person corpora- p0 ration 
 tion counsel and prosecuting attorney, or may appoint different ?p?osecu\- 
 individuals to the separate offices. Upon entering upon the may a beh w 
 duties of his' office, the prosecuting attorney shall take the oath peVsSn 
 required by law of grand jurors. ft*' " ng 
 
 SEC. 66. The process in all actions brought to said city Qualification 
 
 6
 
 42 HEW BRITAIH CITT CHARTER. 
 
 process urt court shall be the same as process to the superior courts ; which 
 process may be signed by any officer of this state authorized to 
 sign writs and judicial processes, or by the judge or clerk of 
 said city court, and may be served by any officer duly qualified 
 under the laws of this state to serve writs aud other judicial 
 processes, or by the sheriff of said city, or by an indifferent 
 person deputed to serve the same, to whom directed according 
 
 Bonds. to, law and the provisions of this act ; and all bonds of prosecu- 
 
 tion taken by any of the officers empowered to sign writs shall 
 be good and effectual, and bonds of prosecution, special bail, 
 and bonds for writs of error shall be taken to the adverse party. 
 
 write."* SEC. 67. All writs shall be served at least twelve days be- 
 
 fore the sitting of the court to which the same may be returna- 
 ble ; and all writs returnable to said court shall be returned to 
 the clerk thereof on or before the Friday preceding the term of 
 court to which the same may be returnable. 
 
 Council shall ., ., . n . , 
 
 private room oEC. 68. Ihe common council of said city shall provide a 
 suitable room and such other accommodations for said city 
 court, including records, blanks, stationery, and so forth, con- 
 templated by this act, as said judge ma}' deem necessary. 
 as- SEC. 69. The salary of said judge shall be the sum of one 
 
 ge ' thousand dollars per annum, and the salary of the assistant 
 judge shall be the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per an- 
 num, and shall be in lieu of all fees whatsoever for services as 
 such judge, or as-sistant judge ; and shall be paid from the city 
 treasury in such manner as shall be provided by the ordinances 
 ^y treas- ofsa ^ c ^y ^ or P a yi Q g money from said treasury. All fees 
 
 by e cierif. pald arism g from 8a id court (except clerk's fees) shall be paid over 
 by the clerk of said court to the city treasurer ; said clerk may 
 draw his order upon the city treasurer for all jury, witness, and 
 
 cierk to officers, fees, or pay the same from any funds he may have in 
 
 (M.m'it'semi- his nands ; he sual1 render his account of the same under oath to 
 
 annually. the treasurer of said city semi-annually. 
 
 .im-ors, when SEC. 70. Whenever either party to any cause pending be- 
 
 iind how sum- 
 
 moned. fore said city court desires the same to be determined by jury, 
 
 said party shall so notify the clerk of said court, in writing. 
 within the first three days of the term to which said cause is 
 brought, and the said cause in such case shall be entered on the 
 jury docket of said court for trial. Whenever, in the opinion 
 of the judge, a jury shall be needed to attend upon said court,
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 48 
 
 then, by his direction, the clerk shall issue a warrant directed to 
 the sheriff of said city or either of the constables of said town, 
 commanding the officer receiving such warrant to draw and 
 summon such jury, and such officer shall thereupon proceed in 
 the manner herein provided. 
 
 SEC. 71. The common council of said City of New Britain, meat of 
 on the third Wednesd?iy in June, annually shall, meet and then 
 choose sixty <>r more electors of said city to serve as jurors at 
 said city court, and shall return the names of said jurors under 
 the hand of the ma3 r or, if present, or in his absence under the 
 hand of the president, pro tempore, of the common council, or 
 in his absence under the hand of the senior alderman present at 
 such meeting, to the clerk of said city court, who shall write 
 each juror's name thus chosen fairly on separate pieces of paper, 
 and roll up and put the same into a box which he shall provide 
 and keep for that purpose ; and whenever the sheriff or either of ^^^ um " 
 the constables within the city of said New Britain shall receive a 
 warrant from the cleik of said city court to summon a jury to 
 appear before said court, the officer receiving such warrant, 
 taking with him one of the aldermen of the city, shall repair to 
 the said clerk's office, and there, in the presence of such alder- 
 man and clerk, shall take out of said box so many of said 
 papers as his warrant shall direct ; and the persons whose names 
 shall be found written thereon shall be summoned to appear be- 
 fore the court to which the warrant is returnable, to serve as 
 jurors ; and in case of neglecting to attend, shall be liable to 
 such penalties as shall by the ordinances of said city be inflicted 
 for such neglect. Authority to enact such ordinances is hereby 
 conferred upon the common council of said City of New Britain ; 
 and in case any juror shall be challenged or excused, and a TO complete 
 panel cannot be completed from the jurors summoned, the pf 
 sheriff or other officer attending said court shall supply such de- 
 ficiency by drawing in the presence of the court, others out of 
 said box, and summoning them to attend and serve, until the 
 panel shall be complete. The name of each juror who attends Liability of 
 and serves in said court shall be again written on a separate piece h"ive rend- 
 of paper, and rolled up and put in another box, provided by the er 
 clerk for that purpose, and shall be liable to be drawn again 
 only when there shall not, by reason of death, removal, or other 
 cause, be a sufficient number in the first box to complete the 
 panels for the year in which they are chosen to serve.
 
 44 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 Police court. S EC . 72. The police court now existing within and for the 
 city of New Britain shall be and remain a police court within 
 
 Judge. and for said city. The judge of the city court for said city 
 
 shall be judge of said police court, which said judge shall have 
 nnd exercise the powers by law now vested in the judge of said 
 police court, and such other powers and duties as are conferred 
 
 Assistant an( j imposed on such police judge by this act. In case said 
 judge shall at any time be unable or disqualified to act in any 
 cause, the assistant judge shall perform the duties of the judge 
 of said court during such absence, inability, or disqualification 
 
 when a o f suc h judge. In case both judge and assistant judge 
 
 OT tn.6 
 
 . 
 
 peace may shall be disqualified or unable to act, the clerk of the court or 
 act as judge. . . 
 
 prosecuting attorney ma}- m writing request a justice of the 
 
 peace, resident within said city to act as such judge, who while 
 
 so acting under such request, shall have the same powers as 
 
 such judge would have in like case; and such wriiten request 
 
 shall be recorded and kept with the records of said court by the 
 
 clerk of the same. And the person so acting in the place and 
 
 Fees of sub- stead of such judge of said police court shall have the same fees 
 
 as are by law allowed a justice of the peace in criminal cases, 
 
 which fees shall be paid in the same manner as herein provided 
 
 for the payment of costs to parties entitled to receive them. 
 
 Powers of SEC. 73. From and after the time when said judge and as- 
 
 slstunP jucfge sistant judge shall commence the discharge of their official du- 
 
 or substitute. , . / , i ,1 j > , 
 
 ties, no person or persons (other than said judge or assistant 
 judge) within the limits of said city and town, except when act- 
 ing as substitute, as hereinbefore provided, or ma}' be provided 
 in the subsequent sections of this act, shall have, use, or exer- 
 cise any of ihe powers specified or mentioned in the preceding 
 sections of this act, except in cases herein specially provided 
 for ; provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as 
 to prohibit any magistrate now authorized by law to issue war- 
 rants for the arrest of offenders from issuing the same hereafter, 
 or to prohibit justices of the peace from discharging any minis- 
 terial duty or office now by law imposed upon them, but all 
 warrants issued on account of any offense committed within the 
 jurisdiction of said police court shall command the officer serv- 
 ing the same to arrest the offender and bring him before the 
 said police court, who shall deal with him in the same manner 
 whether such warrant shall have been issued by any magistrate 
 as aforesaid or by and from said police court.
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 45 
 
 SEC. 74. No such judge or assistant judge shall be disquali- 
 fied t<> sit in any qui tarn or other penal action or prosecution 5^ I* "nai~ 
 from which a penalty may accrue to the treasurer of said city, actions. 
 by reason of his being a resident in said city and liable to taxa- 
 tion therein. 
 
 SEC. 75. Said police court shall have authority, subject to jurisdiction. 
 the provisions of this act, to hear and determine charges for 
 crimes and misdemeanors committed within the limits of the 
 town and city of New Britain, and in that part of the town 
 of Southington, in the county of Hartford, covered by the ton. " 
 water-works of said city and by the waters of the Shuttle 
 Meadow Lake, so called, and within one hundred rods measur- 
 ing landward, from the high water line of said lake along the 
 entire border thereof, the punishment of which, as prescribed by 
 law, does not exceed a fine of two hundred dollars, or six 
 months' imprisonment in a county jail, county or town work- 
 house, or such fine and imprisonment both. And in all such cases 
 said court may proceed to trial, render judgment thereon, and 
 grant a warrant for the execution thereof according to law ; but 
 in all cases the the person convicted may appeal from the judg- 
 ment of said police court to the superior court next to be holden 
 in the county of Hartford for the trial of criminal cases, except 
 when the conviction shall be for the crime of drunkenness, pro- 
 fane swearing, and Sabbath-breaking ; provided, he gives bonds, Bonds. 
 with good and sufficient surety, on the appeal, as said police 
 court shall order, payable to the treasurer of the State of Con- 
 necticut, or the treasurer of the county of Hartford, as the law 
 in each case may require, conditioned for the appearance of the 
 person so convicted before said superior court to answer con- 
 cerning the offense whereof he stands charged, and to abide the When 
 
 Prisoners 
 
 judgment that may be rendered by the said superior court. If may be 
 
 bound over. 
 the crime charged against the accused shall in any case be of so 
 
 aggravated a nature as to require a greater punishment than is 
 above specified, the accused shall be by said police court bound 
 over to the next superior court having cognizance of the offense, 
 in the manner provided by law in cases of binding over, by jus- 
 tices of the peace, and in all cases not bailable said court shall 
 proceed in the same manner as now provided by law in like 
 cases. 
 
 SEC. 76. The clerk of the city court for said city shall be police court 
 the clerk of said police court ; said clerk shall keep a record of proceedings. 
 its proceedings, which shall be open during business hours for
 
 46 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 Shall receive 
 moneys due 
 and account 
 with treas- 
 urer. 
 
 Salary of 
 clerk. 
 
 Bond of 
 clerk. 
 
 Council to 
 provide court 
 room and ac- 
 commo- 
 dations. 
 
 Court to open 
 at eight - 
 thirty. 
 
 Complaints, 
 how made. 
 
 Process. 
 
 public inspection, and shall receive all fines, penalties, and 
 costs, and moneys founded on or received by reason of all and 
 any convictions or judgments had and rendered by said police 
 court and belonging to said city, and shall account for the same 
 to and with the treasurer of said city in writing, under oath, on 
 the first Monday of April and on the first Monday of October, 
 or within ten days thereafter in each year, and as often as the 
 common council of said city shall order, and shall pay the same 
 into the treasury within thirty days of the time of accounting 
 with the treasurer as aforesaid ; said treasurer shall lodge said 
 account on file and keep the* same for the use of said city. The 
 salary of said clerk and the time and manner of paying the 
 same shall be fixed by the common council of said city, and 
 such salary shall be in lieu of all fees whatsoever for criminal 
 business. Said clerk shall, before entering up the duties of his 
 office, execute a bond as hereinbefore prescribed, conditioned 
 that he shall faithfully render an account in writing, under oath, 
 to the treasurer of said city and pay over all fines, penalties, 
 fees, and costs belonging to said city that shall come into his 
 hands, into the treasury of the city, as is hereinbefore provided. 
 
 SEC. 77. The common council of said city shall provide a 
 court room and such other accommodation for said police court 
 as said judge shall deem necessary, including record books, 
 blanks, stationery, and so forth ; and said court shall be open 
 for the transaction of business every day except Sunday, at 
 eight-thirty o'clock in the forenoon, and for so long a time' as 
 shall be necessary to transact all necessary business before said 
 court during said day. 
 
 SEC' 78. Presentments or complaints in any criminal matter 
 cognizable by said police court may be made to the same by the 
 prosecuting attorney or the assistant attorney for the city of 
 New Britain and the powers of grand jurors of the town of New 
 Britain with regard to presentments to said police court shall 
 cease and determine upon the passage of this act ; and said 
 police court, and the clerk thereof, shall exercise the same 
 powers in relation to the issuing of process against persons so 
 complained of, and the granting of summons or capias for wit- 
 nesses, as are conferred by law upon justices of the peace in 
 such cases.
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 47 
 
 SEC. 79. Before entering upon the trial of any criminal ^J 
 cause, the said police court may adjourn hearing on trial thereof police court. 
 from time to time not exceeding fifteen days, unless said court, 
 npon good cause shown, may deem a longer time necessary for 
 the purpose of procuring material testimony, which time shall 
 not exceed ninety days ; and said court, if the offense charged 
 be bailable, shall take good and sufficient bail, if offered, for Bail bond. 
 the appearance of the p.-rson charged, at the day to which the 
 trial or hearing is adjourned. If the case is within the final 
 jurisdiction of said police court, the bond or recognizance shall 
 be payable to the city treasurer, otherwise to the county or state 
 treasurer as the nature of the offense shall require. 
 
 SEC. 80. Said police court is hereby required to charge and f e es. Ce 
 tax for the use of the city of New Britain, in any criminal pro- 
 ceeding, such clerk fees as are now allowed by law to the clerks 
 of the superior court in like proceedings, and two dollars for the 
 trial of each case and one dollar on each appeal, and the fees of 
 the prosecuting officer who shall make any complaint or pre- 
 sentment shall be the same as those now provided by law for 
 grand jurors of towns, and payable from the city treasury. All 
 such fees of the prosecuting officer who shall make complaint 
 shall be taxed and received by the clerk in favor of the city of 
 New Britain ; said clerk ma}* pa} r unto persons entitled to costs Cost to be 
 in any criminal prosecution such costs as have of right accrued limitation of' 
 to them, taking their receipt therefor, but shall not pay costs 
 to any person who shall not demand the same within six months 
 after the same are taxed ; provided, that no part of said costs 
 shall be received by or paid to any salaried officer of said city, 
 for any service whatever, as witness or otherwise ; and said 
 clerk may draw orders on the cit} r treasurer for such sums as 
 are necessary for the purpose hereinbefore indicated, or may 
 
 pay the same out of the funds of the city in his hands. 
 
 ,. Fines and 
 
 ^EC. ol. Ihe said clerk shall receive all fines and costs im- costs by 
 
 posed by said police court, and paid before commitment, and ceived before 
 account for the same to the city treasurer as hereinbefore pro- commit? 
 vided ; and all fines and costs paid after commitment shall be" 1 
 received by the keeper of the jail or of the work-house where 
 the offender shall be confined, and by such keeper paid to the 
 treasurer of the city of New Britain within thirty days after the 
 same shall have been received by said keeper of said jail or 
 work-house.
 
 48 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 Forfeited 
 bonds, duty 
 of corpora- 
 tion counsel 
 and clerk of 
 police court 
 in regard to. 
 
 Confinement 
 of criminals. 
 
 Juvenile of- 
 fenders, com 
 mitment of. 
 
 Police court 
 process, by 
 whom 
 
 served. 
 
 SEC. 82. It shall be the duty of the corporation counsel of 
 said city to prosecute, in the name of the city treasurer, any of 
 the bonds mentioned in this act, which are payable to such 
 treasurer within fifteen days after the same shall be forfeited, 
 and account to and with the city treasurer for all sums received 
 and recovered on such bonds except his taxable fees ; and it is 
 hereby made the duty of the clerk of said police court to give 
 immediate information to the corporation counsel of the forfeit- 
 ure of all bonds taken to the treasurer of said city, in pursuance 
 of this act. 
 
 SEC. 83. The common council of the said city of New Brit- 
 ain may enter into any arrangement with the county commis- 
 sioners of Hartford county, or with the inspectors of any work- 
 house within said county, to receive and keep all persons who 
 may be sentenced to confinement in the common jail of said 
 count} 7 , or in such work-house by said police court ; and it shall 
 be the duty of the sheriff of Hartford county, his deputy, the 
 sheriff of said city of New Britain, and of any constable of the 
 town of New Britain, or either of the special constables or police- 
 men of said city of New Britain, to convej 7 all persons so sent- 
 enced, without delay, to the appointed place of confinement and 
 deliver them to the keeper thereof, who shall receive and imprison 
 such persons and employ them according to the rules, regula- 
 tions, and discipline of such place of confinement, during the 
 term for which they shall be severally sentenced and committed, 
 or until they are discharged by law ; but the said common 
 council shall not have power to enter into any such agreement, 
 at any one time, for a longer period than two years. 
 
 SEC. 84. It shall be lawful for said police court, at its dis- 
 cretion, and in the manner provided by the laws of this state, 
 to order any person brought before said court on any criminal 
 presentment to be committed to any reform school or other in- 
 stitution now or hereafter established within this state for 
 juvenile offenders, and the proper officer of such institution 
 shall receive and keep such person according to the rules and 
 discipline of the same. 
 
 SEC. 85. Process issued by or returnable to said police court 
 may be served by the sheriff of Hartford county, or his deputies, 
 or any constable of the town of New Britain, or the sheriff, or 
 any policeman, or special constable of the city of New Britain,
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 49 
 
 or any indifferent person deputed to serve the same, who shall 
 by several receive the fees therefor now prescribed by law for 
 constables of towns for like service and no more ; provided, no salaried city 
 fee shall be paid to any salaried officer of said city for such ser- receive no 
 vice, but the legal fees therefor shall be taxed and paid to the tng S process. 
 clerk, for the city treasury, upon conviction of any person 
 arrested ; and provided further, that the authority of the sheriff, 
 or any special constable or policeman of said city, shall not ex- 
 tend beyond the limits of the town of New Britain, except as 
 hereinbefore or hereinafter provided. 
 
 SEC. 86. It shall be lawful for all officers hereby authorized $*SJSS 
 to serve process issued by and returnable to the police court, JJ^e. to be 
 and it shall be their duty to arrest without previous complaint 
 and warrant all such persons as are guilty of drunkenness, 
 vagrancy, disorderly conduct, breaches of the peace and com- 
 mon assault, when such offenses shall be committed within the 
 limits of the jurisdiction of said court, and such offenders shall 
 be taken and apprehended in the act or on the present informa- 
 tion of others ; and it shall be lawful for said court to proceed to 
 trial and render judgment without previous complaint and war- 
 rant, upon persons so arrested, in the same manner as if they 
 had been arrested upon process issued by said court. 
 
 SEC. 87. The officers of the town and of the city of New officers in the 
 Britain and members of the police department of said city, shall southington. 
 have the same authority and power to arrest any person or per- 
 sons within that part of the town of Southington described in 
 section seventy-five of this act as they now have to make arrests 
 within the limits of the town and city of New Britain, and all 
 persons so arrested by them shall be brought forthwith before 
 the police court of said city, which court shall thereupon proceed 
 to trial and judgment as in all other similar cases now within 
 its jurisdiction. 
 
 SEC. 88. Nothing in this act contained shall affect the juris- J" {gj^ 1 . 
 diction of grand jurors, or other informing officers of the town ton author- 
 
 Ites not af- 
 
 of Southington, or of justices of the peace of said town, over fee ted. 
 crimes, offenses, and misdemeanors committed in any part of 
 said town of Southington. 
 
 SEC. 89. Whenever any person shall be arraigned before said ^y^u'speiKi 
 police court for drunkenness, vagrancy, disorderly conduct, or a Judgment 
 breach of the peace, said court may indefinitely suspend judg- 
 
 7
 
 50 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 Reduction or 
 disallowance 
 of fees. 
 
 Sureties of 
 the peace. 
 
 ment concerning him, whenever such forbearance shall seem to 
 the court required, either by reason of the age of the accused or 
 the circumstances under which the offense was committed. 
 
 SEC. 90. Said police court may reduce or disallow fees tax- 
 able by said court, in cases where the negligence of any minis- 
 terial or informing officer, or the discharge of the accused for 
 want of evidence, or the insufficiency of the service rendered, or 
 other circumstances, shall render such reduction or disallowance 
 expedient in the view of said court, in the exercise of its sound 
 discretion. 
 
 SEC. 91. Sureties of the peace and for good behavior may be 
 required by said police court in such cases and in such manner 
 as justices of the peace are now authorized by law to require the 
 same ; provided, the cause or occasion of requiring the same 
 shall arise within the limits of the town of New Britain. 
 
 Fines, penal- SEC. 92. All fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred by a 
 
 ties, and for- . 
 
 feitures. how violation of any of the provisions of this act, or any order or or- 
 
 recovered. 
 
 dmance of the common council of said city, shall be for the use 
 
 of said city, and may be recovered by an action of debt, or other 
 
 proper action in the name of the city, brought to said city court, 
 
 One act shall or by information of the prosecuting attorney made to eaid police 
 
 not authorize . . ,, . , . ,, ,, . , , , 
 
 a civil and court, in the cases specified in the twenty-third and twenty-fourth 
 prosecution, sections of this act, to be proceeded with in all respects as other 
 actions brought to said city court, or other informations brought 
 to said police court ; provided, that no person shall be prosecuted 
 both civilly and criminally for the same act of breaking any order 
 or ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 93. All the powers relating to the water supply of said 
 cUy now vested in the common council thereof, and all duties im- 
 posed and powers conferred upon the water commissioners of 
 said city are hereby continued in the common council of said city 
 and the water commissioners thereof respectively, and the 
 present water commissioners of said city shall hold their offices 
 until the third Wednesday of April, 1896 ; said board of water 
 commissioners shall consist of three electors of said city, who 
 shall be chosen in the manner and for the terms in this act 
 provided. Said common council shall annually, on or after the 
 third Wednesday of April, 1897, choose by ballot one resi- 
 dent of said city to serve as water commissioner for the term of 
 three years, and until another is chosen in his place ; the person 
 
 Water 
 supply. 
 
 Water com- 
 missioners, 
 how chosen.
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 51 
 
 receiving a majority of the votes to be declared elected. Said 
 common council shall, in the same manner, fill any vacancies b 
 which may occur in said board. 
 
 SEC. 94. The bonds commonly known as "-water bonds" 
 heretofore issued by the borough and city of New Britain, under liatn in full 
 the various acts authorizing the same, together with all other force - 
 obligations of said borough and city and the inhabitants thereof, 
 are hereby expressly declared to be in full force and effect, and 
 shall be obligatory upon said city and the inhabitants thereof to 
 the same extent that they have been heretofore obligatory upon 
 said borough and city and the inhabitants thereof. 
 
 SEC 95. The board of sewer commissioners shall consist of 
 three electors of said city, who shall not be members of the board how chosen - 
 of street commissioners. The common council shall, during the 
 month of April, on or after the third Wednesday in said month in 
 each year, appoint one member of said board, who shall hold 
 office for the term of three years from the third Wednesday of 
 April of the year in which he is so appointed, and until his suc- 
 cessor shall be appointed and qualified. Whenever a vacancy howfliied!' 
 shall occur in said board it shall be filled in a manner provided 
 in this section for the appointment of members, and said com- 
 mon council may remove any member of said board for cause. 
 
 SEC. 96. Said board of sewer commissioners shall be the 
 trustees of the notes, scrip, or certificates of debt issued by said 
 city for sewer purposes, and shall keep a record of all such ofdebt 
 notes, scrip, or certificates issued, disposed of, or pledged, and 
 all moneys received by said board shall be by it paid over to the 
 treasurer of said city. 
 
 SEC. 97. Said board of sewer commissioners is authorized 
 and empowered to attend to the construction, supervision, care, uttes S of nd 
 and management of the sewers and drains of said city, and have 
 supervision over the construction of such portions of private 
 drains or sewers as are within the limits of any public street, 
 and to exercise any additional powers conferred upon it by said 
 common council, and it shall keep a record of its official pro- 
 ceedings, and shall render a report of its doings to said com- To make re- 
 mon council annually, and oftener when by said common council annually, 
 requested, including a general exhibit of the state of its works, 
 an account of sums requried to be expended therefor, and such 
 other matters of information as may be called for by said com-
 
 52 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 council. 
 
 Police com- 
 missioners, 
 how chosen. 
 
 Police com- 
 misioners. 
 powers and 
 duties. 
 
 officers. 
 
 mon council ; provided, that said board shall always be under 
 the direction of the common council of said city. 
 
 SEC. 98. The board of police commissioners shall consist of 
 three electors of said city. The common council shall, during 
 the month of April, on or after the third Wednesday of said 
 month in each year, appoint one member of said board, who 
 shall hold office for the term of three years from the third Wed- 
 nesday of April of the year in which he is so appointed, and 
 until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. 
 
 SEC. 99. Said commissioners shall have the general manage- 
 ment of the police department of said city, and make all needful 
 rules and regulations for the government thereof, not confiicting 
 with the laws of this state. They shall have the sole power of 
 appointment and removal of officers and members of the police 
 department of said city, and shall appoint their clerk. It shall 
 be the duty of said board of police commissioners to appoint 
 suitable persons to fill the offices of said police department, and 
 other suitable persons as members of said police department, 
 May suspend, an ^ t, o suspend, remove, or expel anv officer or member from 
 
 re move or 
 
 officj or membership in said department whenever, in the judg- 
 ment of said commissioners, such suspension, removal, or ex- 
 pulsion shall be for the best interest of the city, provided that 
 no officer or member of said department shall be removed or 
 expelled without having an opportunity to be heard as to the 
 reason therefor before said board ; and whenever any officer or 
 member of said police department shall be removed or expelled 
 from office or membership, and suid commissioners shall appoint 
 any person to fill the vacancy thus caused, or shall fill any 
 vacancy that may at &ny time occur in said department, from 
 '"between anv cause, such appointment shall be made in such a manner as 
 to divide the membership of said department, as nearly as may 
 be, equally between the two leading political parties for the 
 time being ; whenever any person shall be suspended, removed, 
 or expelled from his office or membership in said department, or 
 whenever any person shall be appointed an officer or member of 
 said police department, it shall be the duty of said board of 
 police commissioners to give a written notice within a reason- 
 able time to the city clerk of said city of New Britain of such 
 Control and appointment, removal, or expulsion, and said board shall con- 
 ment. ge " trol and manage said department in such manner as it may 
 
 exnel police 
 officers. 
 
 Headings. 
 
 Appoint- 
 ments to be 
 made so as 
 to divide 
 
 be 
 cit^ e cierk he
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 53 
 
 deem best calculated to serve the interest? of said ciiy. The 
 present officers and members of the police department of said 
 city, and the officers and members of said department hereafter 
 appointed, shall hold their respective offices and membership in 
 said department until removed or expelled by said board of 
 police commissioners for cause, of which said board shall be the 
 sole judge. 
 
 SEC. 100. The mayor of said city of New Britain, the clerk police com- 
 
 t. A , ,. . . . missioners, 
 
 or the board or police commissioners, or any justice ot the peace compulsory 
 
 j attendance 
 
 may sign and issue process of subpo3na to compel the attend- O f witnesses 
 ance of witnesses before the board of police commissioners of 
 said city at an}* lawful meeting of said board. 
 
 SEC. 101. Such process of subpoena may be served in the subpoena*, 
 same manner as now by law provided as to witnesses in civil how served - 
 causes, except that no fees shall be tendered to any witnesses at 
 the time of said service. Any person upon whom such process 
 has been legally served shall appear before said board in obedi- 
 ence to such process and testify as to any matters lawfully 
 pending before said board. 
 
 Attendance 
 
 SEC. 102. If any person upon whom such subpoena has been of witnesses, 
 duly served shall refuse to attend before said board, the clerk peiied. 
 of the board of police commissioners, b}- direction of said board, 
 may issue a capias directed to some proper officer to arrest such 
 witness and bring him before said board to testify, and in case 
 such person shall refuse to testify, said board shall have power 
 to adjudge such person to be in contempt and may issue a 
 mittimus signed by its clerk and commit such person to jail for a 
 
 period of not more than thirty days. 
 
 J J Fees of 
 
 SEC. 103. The same fees as provided by law for witnesses in witnesses. 
 
 civil causes shall be paid out of the city treasury to any witness 
 except policemen who shall attend and testify under the provis- 
 ions of sections one hundred and one hundred and one ; the 
 amount of such fees to be certified by the clerk of said board to 
 the proper auditing officer of said city. 
 
 rnu -1 c 4.1 *- 1 Council to fix 
 
 SEC. 104. The common council may fix the amount of sal- salaries of 
 aries of members of the police force, may call out the super- me^f; may 
 numerary police when it shall deem it necessary, and may supe"" 
 authorize the mayor or captain of police to do the same ; may n ' 
 fix the amount of their compensation while on duty, and do any 
 other lawful act to render the police force most efficient. Said
 
 54 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 Fire com- 
 missioners. 
 
 how chosen. three e i ectO rs of said city. 
 
 police and supernumeraries, when on duty, shall have the same 
 power, within said city, to pursue and secure offenders as con- 
 stables have in their respective towns. 
 
 SEC. 105. The board of fire commissioners shall consist of 
 The common council shall, during 
 
 the month of April, on or after the third Wednesday of said 
 month in each year, appoint one member of said board who shall 
 hold office for the term of three years from the third Wednesday 
 of April of the year in which he is so appointed, and until his 
 successors shall be appointed and qualified. 
 
 Whenever a vacancy shall occur in said board, it shall be filled 
 in the manner provided in this section for the appointment of 
 Council may members, and said common council may remove any members 
 
 remove 
 
 of said board for cause. 
 
 SEC. 106. Said commissioners shall have the general manage- 
 ment of the fire department of said city, and make all needful 
 rules and regulations for the government thereof, not conflicting 
 with the laws of this state. They shall have the sole power of 
 appointment and removal of officers and members of the fire de- 
 partment of said city, and shall appoint their clerk. It shall be 
 the duty of the said board of fire commissioners to appoint suit- 
 able persons to fill the offices of said fire department, and other 
 stitable persons as members of said fire department, and to sus- 
 pend, remove, or expel any officer or member from office or 
 membership in said department whenever, in the judgment of 
 said commissioners, such suspension, removal, or expulsion 
 shall be for the best interests of the city. Said commissiomers 
 shall be responsible for the discipline, good order, and proper 
 conduct of the whole fire department, both officers and men, 
 and for the care of the horses, engines, hose-reels, fire-alarm 
 telegraph, and all furniture and apparatus thereto belonging, 
 and have the superintendence and control of all the engine 
 and other houses used for the purposes of the fire department, 
 and all the furniture and apparatus thereto belonging. Said 
 board. shall control and manage said department in such man- 
 ner as it may deem best calculated to serve the interests of said 
 Whenever any person shall be suspended, removed, or 
 from his office or membership in said department, or 
 whenever any person shall be appointed an officer or member of 
 said fire department, it shall be the duty of said board of fire 
 
 Vacancies, 
 how filled. 
 
 members. 
 Fire Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Shall ap- 
 point and re- 
 move fire- 
 men and 
 their clerk. 
 
 May sus- 
 pend, re- 
 move, or 
 expel fire- 
 men. 
 
 Responsible 
 for discipline 
 and care of 
 apparatus. 
 
 Control and 
 manage- 
 ment. 
 
 Notice of ap- 
 pointments 
 and removals 
 to be given 
 city clerk.
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 55 
 
 commissioners to give a written notice within a reasonable time 
 to the city clerk of said city of New Britain of such appoint- 
 ment, removal, or expulsion. 
 
 SEC. 107. The present officers and members of the fire mmnbers to 
 department of said city of New Britain, and the officers and be retained - 
 members of said department hereafter appointed, shall hold 
 their respective offices and membership in said department until 
 removed or expelled by said board of fire commissioners for 
 cause, of which said board of fire commissioners shall be the 
 sole judges. 
 
 SEC. 108. No pa}* shall be allowed to members of the board flre commis- 
 of police commissioners or to members of the board of fire com- have no pay 
 
 xi L f iL i. i j- ^ except chair- 
 
 missioners, excepting the chairman of the board of fire com mis- man of flre 
 
 3 3 u *u i commisslon- 
 
 sioners, for any services rendered by them, but the actual ers. 
 
 expenses and disbursements of either of said boards incurred i 
 
 the performance of its duties shall be paid from the city treas- pald how - 
 
 ury when allowed by the common council, and no such expenses 
 
 and disbursements shall be paid unless the same shall have been 
 
 presented to the common council. 
 
 SEC. 109. Said boards of police and fire commissioners shall 
 have full power and authority, each in its respective depart- 
 ment, to purchase for said departments all necessary supplies to P urchase - 
 of every name and nature, and to provide all necessary repairs 
 and alterations in the apparatus, furniture, and property of said 
 departments, and also to sell or exchange any of the property T sel1 or e . x " 
 used in said departments when they shall deem it best so to do, wlth con - 
 
 sent of 
 
 having first obtained the consent of the common council. Fail council. 
 ure to secure the consent of the common council before making 
 
 O 
 
 such sale or exchange shall be cause for removal. The total 
 amount expended in any one year by each of said boards as ltm ' es - 
 aforesaid shall not exceed the total sum appropriated in said 
 year for their respective departments, and the members of the 
 
 boards shall be held personally liable for any excess of expendi- commission- 
 
 ers person- 
 
 tures, and whenever any bill is contracted as aforesaid the city llll y liable. 
 
 auditor shall draw his order on the city treasurer in favor of the 
 persons entitled thereto ; provided, said oill shall have been u*, now 
 first approved by a majority of the members of the board of the 
 department to which said bill shall belong. 
 
 SEC. 110. The members of each of said boards shall be J olice Rlld 
 
 flre commis- 
 
 sworn by the clerk of said city to a faithful and impartial dis- sioners, qual- 
 
 ification of. 
 charge of their duties, and a certificate of their appointment
 
 56 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 Present 
 members, 
 term of of- 
 fice. 
 
 Council to 
 appoint 
 water, sewer, 
 police and 
 fire commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 Terms of 
 office. 
 
 Vacancies, 
 how filled. 
 
 Removals 
 for cause. 
 
 Minority 
 representa- 
 tion. 
 
 and the administration of such oath shall be made and recorded 
 in the records of the city. 
 
 SEC. 111. The present members of all the boards provided 
 for in this act shall hold office until the third Wednesday of 
 April, 1896, when their terms of office shall, by virtue of the 
 provisions of the act, expire. 
 
 SEC. 112. On or after said third Wednesday of April, 1896, 
 and during said month the common council shall appoint, in the 
 manner provided by law, three members of each of the boards 
 of water commissioners, sewer commissioners, police commis- 
 sioners, and fire commissioners, who shall hold their offices re- 
 spectively, one for one }"ear, one for two years, and one for 
 three years, and after said appointment shall have been made all 
 furture appointments shall be made for terms in conformity to 
 the provision of this act ; whenever a vacancy shall occur in any 
 of said boards, it shall be filled in the manner provided in this 
 section for the appointment of members, and said common 
 council may remove any member of either of said boards for 
 cause. The appointment of the members of each of the boards 
 referred to in this section shall be made in such manner that no 
 more than two of the members of said boards shall belong to the 
 same political party. 
 
 council to fix SEC . 113. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect 
 salaries. 
 
 the right of the common council to fix the salaries and compen- 
 sation of the various officers and members of the fire and police 
 departments. 
 
 SEC. 114. Forms substantially like the following may be 
 used in reference to the matters indicated in their titles, and 
 shall be sufficient ; but nothing in this section shall be construed 
 as prohibiting the use of other forms in reference to the same 
 matters, or as invalidating any other forms : 
 I. Form of Ordinance. 
 
 Be it ordained by the common council of the city of New 
 Britain, section one, and so forth. 
 
 II. Form of order under section 36. 
 
 Ordered, That (a or the) sidewalk (or gutter) on the 
 side of street, from to be by the (proprietor 
 
 or proprietors) of the lands fronting on said street, on that side 
 thereof and between said points, to the acceptance of the street 
 commissioner, before the day of , A. D. 18 
 
 Forms. 
 
 Form of or- 
 dinance. 
 
 Form of 
 order for a 
 walk or 
 gutter.
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 57 
 
 III. Form of certificate of lien under section 53. 
 
 This certificate witnesseth, that the city of New Britain has a ufi 1 c m t f f er ' 
 lien on certain land in said city (and the buildings thereon) , lien - 
 owned in whole or in part by A. B., bounded and described as 
 follows, to wit : (describe the premises) and that the amount 
 claimed as a lien as aforesaid on said premises is dollars 
 
 and cents. 
 
 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at said city, 
 this day of , A. D. 18 . 
 
 C. D., Mayor (or City Clerk) of city. 
 
 IV. Form of certificate of discharge of lien under 
 
 section fifty-three. 
 
 This certificate witnesseth, that the lien heretofore claimed Form of dis- 
 charge of 
 by the city of New Britain upon the premises owned m whole lien. 
 
 or in part by A. B., bounded and described as follows, to wit : 
 (describe the premises) has ceased to exist. 
 
 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, at said city, 
 this day of ,.A. D. 18 . 
 
 C. D., Mayor (or City Clerk) of city. 
 V. Form of an order of apportionment under section 
 thirty-nine. 
 
 Whereas, by an order of this common council, it has been Form of ap- 
 portionment 
 made the duty of the proprietor of a certain piece of land, order. 
 
 to wit : (describe it) to (sidewalk or gutters) in front of 
 
 said land ; and whereas, the said land is held by different per- 
 sons, to wit : A. B., C. D., and E. F., in such a manner as to 
 authorize this common council to apportion among said persons, 
 pursuant to section thirty-seven of the city charter, the expenses 
 of executing said order ; and whereas, said expense is estimated 
 at (or ascertained to be) dollars and cents. Ordered, 
 
 that the said A. B. pay (state the fractional part) of said ex- 
 pense, and said C. D. (fractional part) of said expense (and so 
 on). 
 
 VI. Form of complaint for violation of ordinance. 
 To the honorable city police court for the city of New Britain Form of 
 comes A. B., prosecuting attorney of said city, and on his oath c 
 of office complaint and information makes, that since the incor- 
 poration of said ciiy, to wit: on the day of , A. D. 
 18 , and within the limits of said city, of the town of 
 in the county of with force and arms (set forth the act 
 
 8
 
 58 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. 
 
 complained of) against the peace, contrary to the ordinance (or 
 order, as the case may be) of said city, in such case provided, 
 and contrary to the statute in such case provided ; therefore the 
 said prosecuting attorney prays process, and that the said 
 may be arrested, held to answer to this complaint, and be there- 
 in dealt with according to law. 
 
 Dated at said New Britain, this da}- of , A. D. 18 
 
 A. B., prosecuting attorney. 
 VII. Form of action to recover fine, penalty, etc. 
 
 Form of ac- TO the sheriff of the citv of New Britain : 
 tion to re- 
 cover. By authority of the state of Connecticut, you are hereby com- 
 manded to summon A. B., of , to appear before the city 
 court of the city of New Britain, within the county of Hartford, 
 next to be holden at the city court room in said city, on the first 
 Monday of , A. D. 18 , then and there to answer unto the 
 city of New Britain, in a plea that to the plaintiff the defendant 
 render the sum of , which to the plaintiff the defendant 
 owes, and from them unjustly detains ; whereupon the plaintiff 
 declares and says that, heretofore, to wit: on the day of 
 , A. D. 18 , the said A. B. (state the act or negligence 
 which subjects the defendant to the fine, penalty, or forfeiture 
 to be collected). All of which was contrary to the ordinance of 
 said city entitled (give the title to the ordinance imposing the 
 fine, penalt}-, or forfeiture). And the said defendant thereby 
 became and still is liable to forfeit and pay to the plaintiff, for 
 the use of the city treasurer, the sum of , recoverable in 
 an action of debt on said ordinance. Whereby an action hath 
 accrued to the plaintiff to demand and recover of the defendant 
 the sum of , which to the plaintiff the defendant hath 
 never paid, though often requested to to do. All of which is 
 to the damage of the plaintiff in the sum of , and therefore 
 they bring their suit. Hereof fail not, but due service and re- 
 turn make. C. D., of said New Britain, is recognized in the 
 sum of dollars to prosecute, etc. 
 
 Dated at said New Britain, this da}- of , A. D 18 . 
 
 d ^ EC * ^^' ^ rom an( ^ after the time when the provisions of 
 this act go into effect, all other existing provisions of law 
 enacted by any public or private act for the special purpose of 
 affecting the cit}- of New Britain, excepting acts public and 
 private, relating to the water supply of said city, shall be inope-
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY CHARTER. o9 
 
 rative, and are hereby declared to be, from and after such time, 
 repealed ; but said repeal shall not impair or affect any rights, ^ft&^or b 
 privileges, or immunities vested in the present city of New illations not 
 Britain or in any person or bod}* corporate, or any pecuniary 
 obligations now attaching to said communit}- ; and all matters, 
 civil or criminal, commenced b}~ virtue of the provisions of law 
 so repealed, and pending, unfinished when said repealing pro- 
 visions take effect, may be prosecuted to final effect, in the 
 same manner as if this act had not been passed ; no offense Repeal not 
 
 to effect any 
 
 committed and no penalty or forfeiture incurred, and no tax clr penalty or 
 
 tax or assess- 
 
 assessment paid or incurred, under any of the provisions of law ment in- 
 cured, 
 herein repealed, or under any by-law, order, or ordinance made 
 
 under any of said provisions, shall be in anywise affected by 
 said repeal. The orders and ordinances of said city in force 
 when this act takes effect shall thereafter continue in force, 
 notwithstanding any provisions of this act, until repealed by re 
 the common council of said city. 
 
 SEC. 116. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
 
 Approved, June 6th, 1895.
 
 CHARTER 
 
 OF THE 
 
 WATER-WORKS, 
 
 ACCEPTED JUNE 4, 1857. 
 
 WITH AMENDMENTS, 
 
 AND 
 
 ACTS AUTHORIZING THE ISSUE OF WATER BONDS 
 AND SEWER BONDS.
 
 WATER-WORKS. 
 
 AX ACT TO SUPPLY THE BOROUGH OF NEW BRITAIN WITH 
 WATER FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PURPOSES. 
 
 SECTION 
 
 1. Borough empowered to take 
 water for water-works from 
 Shuttle Meadow brook. 
 2. Board of Water Commissioners. 
 
 3. Their powers and duties. 
 
 4. Quorum, and vacancies in 
 
 board. 
 
 5. Assessment of compensation 
 
 and damages, by whom made. 
 6 Water fund bonds, authority to 
 
 issue, and amount. 
 7. Water Commissioners trustees 
 
 of water fund bonds. 
 
 SECTION 
 
 8. Water rents, how applied. 
 
 9. Deficiency of water rents sup- 
 
 plied by tax. 
 
 10. Taxes for expenses of water- 
 
 works, a lien. 
 
 11. Orders, and bonds, of Water 
 
 Commissioners. 
 
 12. Corrupting the water, or injur- 
 
 ing the water-works. 
 
 13. A public act, and how accepted. 
 
 14. When act takes effect. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 
 General Assembly convened. 
 
 (1857) 
 
 SECTION 1. That *"the borough of New Britain," is hereby Borough au- 
 
 J thorized to 
 
 authorized aud empowered to take water from the stream known take water 
 
 from Shuttle 
 
 as ''Shuttle Meadow Brook,' at any feasible point near the Meadow 
 
 brook 
 
 southwest corner of the town of New Britain, either within or 
 without the limits of said town ; provided that rights of other 
 proprietors sustaining damage thereby, be paid for by said 
 borough, as hereinafter provided, and such water to convey and 
 distribute into and through the said borough, by means of aque- 
 ducts, reservoirs, and other suitable works, in such quantities 
 as the necessities and conveniences of said borough may re- 
 quire ; also, to take and hold any lands or other estate, or any TO take 
 
 ... . . " lands. 
 
 privileges, and to exercise any powers not inconsistent with the 
 laws of this state, that may be necessary or convenient for 
 carrying into full effect the purposes of this act.f 
 
 * See amendment next following. 
 
 f Amended May 30th, 1860.
 
 64 
 
 NEW BRITAIN WATER WORKS. 
 
 Water com- 
 missioners 
 (amended by 
 charter, Sec- 
 tion 93.) 
 
 Water com- 
 missioners, 
 powers and 
 duties of. 
 
 Water for 
 public use. 
 
 To keep re- 
 cords and 
 make 
 reports. 
 
 SEC. 2. Said borough shall immediately upon its acceptance 
 of the provisions of this act, proceed to elect three persons, 
 who shall act as a board of water commissioners, with the pow- 
 ers conferred by this act, and shall hold office until the next 
 annual meeting of said borough, and until others are chosen in 
 their stead and sworn, and at each annnal meeting hereafter 
 there shall be chosen three water commissioners, to hold office 
 for one year, and until their successors are sworn. 
 
 SEC. 3. Said commissioners are hereby authorized and em- 
 powered to purchase and take conveyances for and in the name 
 of the borough, of all lands, or other estates or privileges, 
 necessary or convenient for accomplishing the purposes of this 
 act ; to make contracts for labor and materials for the general 
 purposes contemplated by this act ; to dam and hold in sufficient 
 quantities the water of said stream ; to lay and construct all 
 necessary pipes, aqueducts, or reservoirs, either within or with-, 
 out said borough ; to make use of the ground or soil under any 
 railroad, street, high or private way, for the purposes of laying 
 said pipes or aqueducts in such manner as least to obstruct or 
 impede travel thereon, causing all damage done thereto to be 
 repaired, and all damages sustained by any person or corpora- 
 tion, inconsequence of the interruption of travel, to be paid to 
 such person or corporation ; to make and establish public reser- 
 voirs and hydrants, under the direction of the warden and bur- 
 gesses ; to regulate the distribution and use of said water, and 
 establish the prices to be paid therefor. Provided, that in the 
 regulation of water for all public uses, said board shall be under 
 the direction of the warden and burgesses ; to collect all water 
 rents, and pay over the same to the borough treasurer, to audit, 
 allow, and draw orders on the treasurer for the payment of all 
 claims against said borough on account of said water works, 
 and generally to attend to the construction, supervision, care 
 and management of said water works, and to exercise any addi- 
 tional powers that may from time to time be conferred upon 
 them by said borough ; and they shall keep a record of their 
 official proceedings and render a report of their doings to said 
 borough, including a general exhibit of the state of the works, 
 an account of sums required to be expended therefor, and such 
 other matters of information as may be called for by the warden 
 and burgesses at each annual meeting ; and to the warden and
 
 NEW BRITAIN WATER WORKS. 
 
 burgesses whenever by them required ; and said commissioners 
 shall keep regular books of account. 
 
 SEC. 4. A majority of said commissioners shall constitute a 
 quorum for the transaction of any of the business of said board, 
 and all vacancies which shall occur in said board, by death, 
 resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled as soon as may be by 
 the warden and burgesses. 
 
 SEC. 5. Whenever disagreement shall be had between said Damages, 
 
 how ascer- 
 
 board and the owner or owners of any property or privileges tained and 
 which may be required for the purposes of this act, as to the 
 amount of compensation or damages to be paid to such owner 
 or owners for the same, or whenever such owner shall by law 
 be incapable of contracting, or be absent from this state, such 
 compensation or damages may be assessed by three disinter- 
 ested persons, under oath, appointed by either judge of the 
 supreme court of errors, on application made to said judge, by 
 or on behalf of either party, after such notice shall be given of 
 such application, as said judge shall see fit to prescribe, which 
 said appraisers shall report their doings, embracing the amount 
 of their assessment, to the clerk of the superior court for Hart- 
 ford county, to be by him recorded, and thereupon such assess- 
 ment shall be taken and held to be a final adjustment of said 
 compensation and damages between said parties, and upon pay- 
 ment thereof, or deposit of the same with the county treasurer, 
 to the use of such owner or owners, said commissioners may 
 proceed with the construction of said works, without liability 
 to any further claim to compensation or damages. 
 
 SEC. 6. For the purpose of defraying the cost of construe- ^tle 
 tion of said water- works, including the cost of purchase and* 50 ' 000 - 
 the other expenses incident thereto, and for no other purpose 
 whatever, said borough is hereby authorized and empowered to 
 issue notes, scrip, or certificates of debt, to be denominated on 
 the face thereof, ''Water Fund of the borough of New Britain," 
 to an amount not exceeding in the whole the sum of fifty 'thous- 
 and dollars, bearing interest at no greater rate than seven per 
 cent, per annum, the principal of which shall be payable at 
 some certain time or times, within thirty years from issuing of 
 the same, and the amount of said notes, scrip, or certificates 
 which may at any time be issued together with the times of pay- 
 ment of the principal and interest thereof, and the rate of in- ^ e of lnter "
 
 66 
 
 NEW BRITAIN WATER WORKS. 
 
 Water com- 
 missioners to 
 be trustees of 
 and sell the 
 bonds. 
 
 To keep a 
 record. 
 
 Water rents, 
 how ex- 
 pended. 
 
 Deficiencies, 
 how pro- 
 vided for. 
 
 Tax for defi- 
 ciencies, how 
 collected. 
 
 Water rents 
 a Hen upon 
 property. 
 
 terest shall be prescribed by said borough, in legal borough 
 meeting for that purpose specially called and held, and said 
 notes, scrip, or certificates shall be signed by the warden and 
 countersigned by the treasurer of said borough, and shall, when 
 issued, be obligatory upon said borough and the inhabitants 
 thereof, according to the purport and tenor of the same. 
 
 SEC. 7. Said board of water commissioners shall be the 
 trustees of the notes, scrip, or certificates of debt, issued by 
 said borough, shall superintend the issuing of the same, and 
 regulate the particular form thereof, and after the same or any 
 part thereof shall be issued, they may sell the same, in such 
 manner and on such terms as they may deem best, or they may 
 pledge the same for moneys borrowed by said borough, to be 
 used in or about the construction of said works. And said 
 board shall keep a record of all such notes, scrip, or certificates 
 issued, disposed of, or pledged, and all moneys received by 
 said board shall be by them paid over to the borough treasurer. 
 
 SEC. 8. The avails of all water rents shall be first applied 
 to defraying the ordinary and current expenses of said water- 
 works, after which, to the payment of the interest on said notes, 
 scrip, or certificates, and if there shall at any time still be an 
 excess, the borough treasurer shall report the fact to the warden 
 and burgesses, who may direct whether the same be applied to 
 the extinguishment of the principal debt incurred by the issuing 
 of said notes, scrip, or certificates, or to any other purpose in 
 connection with said works. 
 
 SEC. 9. In case the avails of water rents in an}- year shall 
 be inadequate to meet the current expenses of said water- 
 works, and the interest of said notes, scrip, or certificates, the 
 deficiency shall be supplied by the laying of a tax on the grand 
 list of all persons liable to borough taxation, which said tax 
 may be laid at any borough meeting legally called for that pur- 
 pose, and said borough may at any borough meeting for that 
 purpose specially called and held, lay taxes for the purpose of 
 paying the principal debt aforesaid, or any part thereof, by the 
 establishment of a sinking fund or in any other manner. 
 
 SEC. 10. Taxes laid for the purposes mentioned in the pre- 
 ceding section, may be collected in the same manner as other 
 borough taxes, and any claim of said borough for the use of 
 water, shall be a lien upon the house, tenement, or lot, wherein,
 
 NEW BRITAIN WATER WORKS. 
 
 or in connection with which, said water was used by the owner 
 or occupier thereof. And said lien may be foreclosed before 
 any court having jurisdiction, in the same manner as a mortgage 
 is now foreclosed, according to the rules of equity. 
 
 SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of said commissioners to desig- 
 nate in all orders by them drawn upon the treasurer, the class P^h" 36 for 
 to which the same belongs, whether construction account or drawn - 
 expense account, and the treasurer shall pay all such orders 
 from the appropriate fund as established in the foregoing sec- 
 tions of this act. And such commissioners and treasurer shall Bonds, 
 give bonds with sufficient surety for the faithful performance of 
 their several trusts in such sums and shall receive for their ser- 
 vices such compensations as the warden and burgesses shall 
 prescribe. 
 
 SEC. 12. If any person shall willfully and maliciously cor- 
 rupt the water in any reservoir, hydrant, aqueduct pipe or 
 portion of said water-works, or destroy or injure any portion of penalty for. 
 such works, or any materials or property used or designed to be 
 used in connection therewith, he shall forfeit and pa} T to said 
 borough treble damages in an action of trespass brought by 
 said borough, and such person, on conviction thereof before any 
 court having jurisdiction of the offense, shall be punished by 
 fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment 
 not exceeding one year, or by such fine and imprisonment both. 
 
 SEC. 13. This act shall to all intents and purposes be a pub- Togointoef- 
 
 fect when ac- 
 
 hc act, and may be altered, amended, or repealed by the general cepted by the 
 
 borough. 
 
 assembly ; and the same shall not go into effect until it has been 
 accepted by said borough at a borough meeting legally warned 
 for that purpose, in conformity with the provisions of the by- 
 laws of said borough for the warning of special meetings there- 
 of, and to be held within two weeks from the date of the pass- 
 age hereof, at which meeting the votes shall be taken by ballots, 
 written "yes" and "no," and if two-thirds of the ballots so 
 cast in said meeting shall have upon the same the word "yes," 
 then this act shall be in full force, otherwise the same shall be 
 null and void ; the boxes to receive the ballots aforesaid shall 
 be kept open on such day of voting from nine o'clock A. M., 
 until two o'clock P. M., and the votes shall be counted and the 
 result declared in the manner prescribed for the election of the 
 annual officers of said borough ; and if at said meeting this act
 
 68 
 
 To take 
 effect. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN WATER WORKS. 
 
 shall be accepted by said borough, said borough may thereupon 
 proceed at the same meeting to vote upon the matter of issuing 
 said notes, scrip, or certificates, and to elect said commissioners 
 and transact any other business contemplated in the provisions 
 of this act, provided notice thereof shall have been inserted in 
 the call for said meeting. 
 
 SEC. 14. This act shall take effect from the day of its accept- 
 ance, in manner aforesaid, by the said borough of New Britain. 
 
 AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT 
 TO SUPPLY THE BOROUGH OF NEW BRITAIN WITH 
 WATER FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PURPOSES." 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 
 General Assembly convened: 
 
 SECTION 1. That the act entitled "An act to supply the 
 of the preced- borough of New Britain with water for public and private pur- 
 poses," passed at this session of the general assembly, be 
 amended by the insertion of the words, " The warden, bur- 
 gesses, and freemen of," between the words " that" and " the " 
 in the first line of the first section of said act. 
 
 SEC. 2. This act shall be a public act, and take effect from 
 its passage. 
 
 Amending 
 section first 
 
 AMENDING "AN ACT TO SUPPLY THE BOROUGH OF NEW 
 BRITAIN WITH WATER FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE 
 PURPOSES." 
 
 SECTION 
 
 1. Extension of water pipes to town 
 limits authorized. 
 
 SECTION 
 2. When act takes effect. 
 
 Resolved by this Assembly : 
 
 SECTION 1. That the warden, burgesses and freemen of the
 
 NEW BRITAIN WATER WORKS. 69 
 
 borough of New Britain be, and they hereby are, authorized 
 
 and empowered to extend and continue their water pipes to authorized to 
 
 localities without the limits of said borough, and within the ^end pipes 
 
 town of New Britain, and to supply and distribute water by limits. 
 
 them taken under the provision of said act, to the proprietors 
 
 or occupants of such localities, upon such terms as may be 
 
 agreed upon between said proprietors or occupants and the 
 
 proper officers of said borough ; and all the powers and priv- 
 
 ileges conferred upon said borough by said act, shall apply to 
 
 this act, so far as may be necessary to make the same fully 
 
 effectual for the purposes aforesaid ; provided, that this act may 
 
 be altered, amended, or repealed at the pleasure of the general 
 
 assembly. 
 
 SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from the day of its passage. 
 
 Approved, May 30th, 1860. 
 
 BONDS, SECOND SERIES. 
 
 AUTHORIZING THE BOROUGH OF NEW BRITAIN TO ISSUE 
 BONDS FOR PROCURING AN ADDITIONAL SUPPLY OF 
 WATER. 
 
 Resolved by this Assembly : 
 
 (1867) 
 
 That the warden, burgesses, and freemen of the borough of Additional 
 New Britain are hereby authorized to take and hold any and all 
 lands and other estate that may be necessary for laying an addi- 
 tional pipe from the present reservoir of the water works to the 
 said borough, said land and other estate to be taken, held and 
 compensation to be made in the manner provided in the "Act 
 to supply the borough of New Britain with water for public and 
 private purposes." 
 
 Resolved further. That for the purpose of defraying the cost water bonds 
 
 second series 
 
 of laying such additional main pipe, and other expenses incident of $75,000. 
 to the construction and completion of said water works, and for 
 said purpose only, said borough is hereby authorized and em-
 
 70 NEW BRITAIN WATER WORKS. 
 
 powered to issue notes, scrip, or certificates of debt, to be denom- 
 inated on the face thereof, the "Water Fund of the borough 
 of New Britain, second series," to an amount not exceeding in 
 the whole the sum of seventy -five thousand dollars, bearing 
 interest at no greater rate than seven per cent, per annum, the 
 principal of which shall be payable at some certain time or times 
 within thirty years from issuing the same, and the amount of 
 said notes, scrip, or certificates which may at any time be issued, 
 together with the times of payment of the principal and interest 
 thereof, and the rate of interest shall be prescribed by said 
 borough in legal meeting for that purpose called and held, and 
 said notes, scrip, or certificates shall be signed by the warden 
 and countersigned by the treasurer of said borough, and shall, 
 when issued, be obligatory upon said borough and the inhabitants 
 thereof according to the tenor of the same ; and the water com- 
 missioners of said borough shall have the same interest in, and 
 power over said bonds for the purposes aforesaid, which 
 they now have by law in and over bonds hitherto issued pursu- 
 Approvai ant to the charter of said water -works, provided, that this 
 act shall not take effect, until approved by a majority of the 
 legal voters of said borough, at a meeting duly warned and 
 held for that purpose. 
 
 Approved, July llth, 1867. 
 
 AUTHORIZING THE ISSUE OF BALANCE OF BONDS HERE- 
 TOFORE AUTHORIZED BY THE BOROUGH OF NEW 
 BRITAIN BY THE CITY OF NEW BRITAIN. 
 
 (1871) 
 
 Authorizing Whereas, the general assembly of the state of Connecticut, 
 
 the comple- 
 tion of the at the May session thereof, in the year 1867, did pass a reso- 
 issue of the J J 
 
 second series, lution authorizing the community, then known as the warden, 
 
 burgesses, and freemen of the borough of New Britain, to issue 
 notes, scrip, or certificates of debt, to the amount of seventy- 
 five thousand dollars for the purposes of aiding in the construc- 
 tion and completion of the water works of said New Britain : 
 and whereas, said community did accept said resolution, as 
 provided therein, and has duly issued bonds pursuant thereto, 
 to the amount of fifty thousand dollars : and whereas said com- 
 munity, now known as the city of New Britain, is desirous of 
 issuing the amount of bonds remaining to be issued, under the 
 original grant of authority aforesaid,
 
 NEW BRITAIN WATER WORKS. 71 
 
 Resolved by this Assembly : 
 
 That said city of New Britain is hereby authorized to issue 
 its notes, scrip, or certificates of debt to the amount of twenty- city 
 five thousand dollars, to be denominated on the face thereof, the 
 "Water Fund of the city of New Britain," and to be signed by 
 the mayor and countersigned by the treasurer of said city, but 
 to be in all other respects conformatory to the provisions of the 
 original resolution accepted as aforesaid. 
 
 Approved, June 16th, 1871. 
 
 BONDS, THIRD SERIES. 
 
 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF NEW BRITAIN TO ISSUE AD- 
 DITIONAL WATER BONDS. 
 
 Resolved by this Assembly : 
 
 (1873) 
 
 That for the purpose of defraying the cost and expenses inci- 
 dent to the construction, completion, and extension of the of $75 - 000 
 water-works of the city of New Britain and for said purpose 
 only, the said city of New Britain is hereby authorized and 
 empowered to issue notes, scrip, or certificates of debt, to be 
 denominated on the face thereof, the "Water Fund of the city 
 of New Britain, third series," to an amount not exceeding, in 
 the whole, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, ($75,000,) 
 bearing interest at no greater rate than seven per cent, per an- 
 num, the principal of which shall be payable at some certain 
 time or times within thirty years from issuing the same, and the 
 amount of said notes, scrip, or certificates, which may at any 
 time be issued, together with the times of payment of the prin- 
 cipal and interest thereof; and the rate of interest shall be pre- 
 scribed by said city, in legal meeting for that purpose called and 
 held, and said notes, scrip, or certificates, shall be signed by 
 the mayor, and countersigned by the treasurer of said city, and 
 shall, when issued, be obligatory on said city and the inhabi- 
 tants thereof, according to the tenor of the same ; and the water
 
 NEW BRITAIN WATER WORKS. 
 
 Approval 
 necessary. 
 
 commissioners of said city shall have the same interest in and 
 power over said bonds for the purposes aforesaid, which they 
 now have, by law, over the bonds commonly known as "water 
 bonds," hitherto issued by the borough and the city of New 
 Britain, under the various acts authorizing the same ; provided, 
 that this act shall not take effect until approved by a majority of 
 the legal voters of said city, at a meeting duly warned and held 
 for that purpose. 
 
 Approved, July 1st, 1873. 
 
 BONDS, FOURTH SERIES. 
 
 
 sioners to 
 take streams 
 or water 
 
 sources,( Pan 
 ther swamp 
 
 fourth series 
 of $80,ooo. 
 
 AN ACT TO EXTEND THE POWERS OF THE BOARD OF 
 WATER COMMISSIONERS AND AUTHORIZING THE IS- 
 SUE OF ADDITIONAL BONDS. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 
 General Assembly convened. 
 
 SECTION 1. The board of water commissioners of the city 
 of New Britain for the purpose of improving and increasing the 
 
 water supply of said city are hereby authorized and empowered 
 
 . * 
 
 in behalf of said city to take and hold any stream or water 
 
 source, and any land necessary or convenient for constructing 
 aqueducts and reservoirs within the limits of the towns of Berlin 
 and New Britain, and any land or water right, title, privilege or 
 franchise which may be required, taken or impaired for the pur- 
 pose aforesaid, shall be compensated for, and the damages there- 
 f r ascertained, liquidated and paid in the same manner pro- 
 vided in the fifth section of the act to supply the borough of 
 New Britain with water for public and private purposes. 
 
 SEC. 2. For the purpose of defraying the cost of thus in- 
 creas i Q g ^s water supply, said board of water commissioners 
 are hereby authorized to issue notes, scrip, or certificates of 
 debt to an amount not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, which 
 shall be denominated on their face, the "Water Fund of the 
 city of New Britain, fourth series," and shall in all respects 
 be issued in conformity to the provisions of a resolution author- 
 izing the city of New Britain to issue additional water bonds.
 
 NEW BRITAIN WATER WORKS. 73 
 
 Passed at the May session of this assembly, 1873, and ap- 
 proved July 1st, of the same year. 
 
 SEC. 3. This act shall not take effect until approved by a Approval 
 
 17 necessary. 
 
 majority of the legal voters of said city at a meeting dulj* 
 warned and held for that purpose. 
 Approved, May 3d, 1883. 
 
 BONDS, FIFTH SERIES. 
 
 AN ACT TO EXTEND THE POWERS OF THE BOARD OF 
 WATER COMMISSIONERS AND AUTHORIZING THE IS- 
 SUE OF ADDITIONAL BONDS. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 
 General Assembly convened. 
 
 SECTION 1. The board of water commissioners of the city Water Com- 
 
 missioners 
 of New Britain, for the purpose of improving and increasing the authorized to 
 
 take water 
 
 water supply of said city, are hereby authorized and empow- and buiui 
 
 i i i i* /. .,." , -I-IT .aqueducts In 
 
 ered in behalf of said cit} 1 to take, hold, and use the water of Piainviiie 
 any spring or springs, stream or streams, or other waters, and Southington. 
 any land necessar} r or convenient for conducting aqueducts 
 and reservoirs within the limits of the towns of Plainville and 
 Southington, to such an extent as ma}- be necessary and expedi- 
 ent in carrying into effect the objects of this act, and any land 
 or water right, title, privilege or franchise which may be re- 
 quired, taken, or impaired for the purpose aforesaid, shall be 
 
 compensated for and the damages therefor ascertained, liqui- Damages, 
 
 . how ascer- 
 
 dated and paid in the manner provided in the fifth section of tained and 
 
 the act to supply the borough of New Britain with water for 
 public and private purposes; provided that this act shall not 
 enable the city of New Britain to take and appropriate any 
 
 streams of water whose natural course is westwardly and to or vlle not to 
 
 be taken. 
 
 towards the village of Plainville, but only such streams as 
 naturally flow eastwardly and towards New Britain or Shuttle 
 Meadow reservoir. 
 
 SEC. 2. That for the purpose of defraying the increased Water bonds, 
 
 J fifth series 
 
 cost and expense, over and above the sum of thirty thousand of *2o,ouo. 
 
 dollars, ($30,000,) incident to the construction, completion 
 
 10
 
 74 NEW BRITAIN WATER WOR^S. 
 
 and extension of the water works as provided in an act entitled 
 "An act to extend the powers of the board of water commis- 
 sioners of the city of New Britain," passed at the January ses- 
 sion 1883, of this assembly, and approved May 3, 1883, and 
 also for the purpose of strengthening, raising and enlarging 
 the dam known as Shuttle Meadow dam, and for the purpose 
 of extending and continuing and replacing water pipes or hy- 
 drants, and for an} 7 other purpose necessary for the proper 
 maintenance and preservation of the water works of said city, 
 said board of water commissioners are hereby authorized and 
 empowered to issue notes, scrip, or certificates of debt to an 
 amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, ($20,000,) which 
 shall be denominated on their face, the "Water Fund of the 
 city of New Britain, fifth series," and shall in all respects be 
 issued in conformity to the provisions of a resolution authorizing 
 the city of New Britain to issue additional water bonds, passed 
 at the May session, 1873, of this assembly, and approved July 
 1st, of the same year. 
 Approval S EC . 3. This act shall not take effect until approved by a 
 
 necessary. 
 
 majority of the legal voters of said city, present at a meeting 
 duly warned and held for that purpose. 
 
 BONDS, SIXTH SERIES. 
 
 EXTENDING THE POWERS OF THE BOARD OF WATER 
 COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF NEW BRITAIN, AND 
 AUTHORIZING THE ISSUE OF ADDITIONAL BONDS. 
 
 Resolved by this Assembly: 
 
 (1893) 
 
 Water bonds. SECTION 1. That for the purpose of defraying the cost of and 
 
 sixth series of J 
 
 $200,000, pur- expenses incident to the building, construction, and completion 
 
 pose of Issu- 
 
 ing. of a new dam and gate-house at Shuttle Meadow lake, so called, 
 
 N ate house an( ^ ^ Defraying tne cog t of acquiring land on and near the bor- 
 
 act1 "} 1 n 1 ^ ^ ers f sa ^ lake, for the purpose of increasing the holding ca- 
 
 ui P ac i tv f s& ^ lake, and of changing the location of the highway 
 
 bulletin - located next west of said lake, and for the purpose of defraying 
 west canal. r 
 
 the cost of lands, streams, water rights, and privileges acquired
 
 NEW BRITAIN WATER WORKS. 75 
 
 in the town of New Britain for the construction and building 
 of an aqueduct or canal known as the west canal, and fully de- 
 scribed on a map on file in the office of the board of water com- 
 missioners in said city, and entitled "Map showing the layout 
 of West canal, and the land necessary to be taken for its con- 
 struction," and dated October 6th, 1892 ; and for the purpose 
 of defraying the cost of and expenses incident to the acquiring 
 of the said land, rights, and privileges, and the building and 
 construction of said aqueduct or canal through and over said 
 acquired land for improving and increasing the water supply of 
 said city ; and for the purpose of defraying the cost of land 
 acquired for the laying of a twenty-four inch water main from New water 
 
 main from 
 
 said lake into said citv ; for the purpose of defraying the cost shuttle 
 
 n Meadow 
 
 thereof, and expenses incident to the purchasing of pipe and to city. 
 
 all material necessary to the laying, construction, and com- 
 
 pletion of said water main, and the cost of laying said pipe ; 
 
 and for the purpose of defraying the cost of all work, labor, 
 
 materials, and services rendered, and expenses incident to the 
 
 laying of said water main, and the construction and completion 
 
 of said dam, said gate-house, and said canal, and the acquiring 
 
 of said lands for the purpose of improving and increasing the 
 
 water supply of said city, the board of water commissioners of 
 
 said city of New Britain are hereby authorized to issue notes, 
 
 scrip, or certificates of debt to an amount not exceeding two 
 
 hundred thousand dollars, which shall be denominated on their 
 
 face, the "Water Fund of the city of New Britain, sixth 
 
 series," and shall in all respects be issued in conformity to the issue to con- 
 
 ..,_..,-.._.. form to pro- 
 
 provisions of a resolution authorizing the City of New Britain to visions of act 
 
 issue additional water bonds, passed at the May session of the 
 general assembly, 1873, and approved July 1st, of the same year. 
 
 SEC. 2. The said issue of notes, scrip, or certificates of debt TO be in ad- 
 
 to said amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars is sue^of sums 
 
 hereby authorized in addition to the sum of thirty thousand of xo 
 dollars as provided in an act entitled "An act to extend the thorized! u ~ 
 powers of the board of water commissioners of the city of New 
 Britain," passed at the January session of the general assembly, 
 
 1883, and approved May 3d, 1883, and in addition to the sum 
 of twenty thousand dollars, as provided in an act entitled "An 
 act to extend the powers of the board of water commission- 
 ers," passed at the January session of the general assembly, 
 
 1884, and approved March 18th, 1884.
 
 76 
 
 NEW BRITAIN WATER WORKS. 
 
 Approval 
 
 necessary. 
 
 SEC. 3. This act shall not take effect until approved by a 
 majority of the legal voters of said city, present at a meeting 
 duly warned for that purpose. 
 
 Approved, March 16th, 1893. 
 
 Renewal 
 
 Issue of city 
 and water 
 fund bonds 
 authorized. 
 
 Renewal 
 bonds to con 
 form toorigl 
 nul pro- 
 visions. 
 
 AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF NEW BRITAIN TO REDEEM 
 ITS OUTSTANDING BONDS BY THE ISSUE OF NEW 
 BONDS. 
 
 Resolved by this Assembly : 
 
 When any bonds, notes, scrip, or certificates of debt issued 
 by the city of New Britain, or by the board of water commis- 
 sioners of said city, under and by authority of the general 
 assembly of this state, shall become due and payable, and said 
 city of New Britain, or said board of water commissioners, shall 
 desire to redeem them by the issue of new bonds, notes, scrip, 
 or certificates of debt, said city of New Britain, or said board 
 of water commissioners, shall be and are hereby authorized to 
 issue new bonds, notes, scrip, or certificates of debt for such 
 purpose, which said bonds, notes, scrip, or certificates of debt 
 shall bear upon their face the same denomination as the original 
 bonds, notes, scrip, or certificates of debt with the additional 
 words "renewal issue" ; provided, each and every such renewal 
 issue shall in all respects be issued in conformity to the provis- 
 ions of the original resolution, enacted by the general assembly 
 of this state, authorizing the issue of the original bonds, notes, 
 scrip, or certificates of debt to be redeemed by such renewal 
 issue. 
 
 Approved, March 10th, 1893,
 
 ACTS 
 
 AUTHORIZING THE ISSUE 
 
 OF 
 
 SEWER BONDS
 
 SEWER BONDS. 
 
 SEWER FUND BONDS, FIRST SERIES, 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 
 General Assembly convened : 
 
 SECTION 1. That for the purposes of defraying the cost and 
 
 Sewer bonds, 
 
 expense incident to the laying out, constructing, and repairing *i50,ooo. 
 of sewers and drains in the city of New Britain, and of paying 
 the indebtedness of said city already accrued, and now existing 
 on account of the purchase of the "Shepard property," so-called, 
 and for said purposes only, the s;iid city of New Britain is here- 
 by authorized and empowered to issue notes, scrip, or certifi- 
 cates of debt, to be denominated on the face thereof, the "Sewer 
 Fund of the city of New Britain." to an amount not exceeding 
 in the whole the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand ($150,- 
 000) dollars, bearing interest of no greater rate than per 
 
 cent, per annum, the principal of which shall be payable at some 
 certain time or times within years from issuing the same, 
 
 and the amount of said notes, scrip, or certificates which ma3 r at 
 any time be issued, together with the times of payment of the 
 principal and interest thereof, and the rate of interest, shall be 
 prescribed by said city in legal meeting for that purpose called 
 and held, and said notes, scrip, or certificates shall be signed by 
 the mayor and countersigned by the treasurer of said city, and 
 shall, when issued, be obligatory on said city and the inhabitants 
 thereof, according to the tenor of the same, and all snms of 
 
 money realized from the sale or other disposition of said "Shep- 
 
 11
 
 82 NEW BRITAIN SEWER BONDS. 
 
 ard property," or any portion thereof, or from sewer assessments, 
 shall belong to the sewer fund of said city, and shall be used for 
 sewer purposes only 
 
 necessary. SEC. 5 - This act sha11 take effect from its passage and when 
 approved by a majority of the legal voters of said city present at 
 a meeting duly warned and held for that purpose. 
 Approved, June 9th, 1874. 
 
 SEWER FUND BONDS, SECOND SERIES, 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 
 General Assembly convened : 
 
 (1886) 
 
 Sewer bonds, SECTION 1. For the purpose of defraying the cost and ex- 
 
 $50,000. 
 
 pense incident to lajnng out, constructing, repairing and extend- 
 ing sewers and drains, in the city of New Britain, and for said 
 purpose only, the said city is hereby authorized and empowered 
 to issue notes, scrip, or certificates of debt, to be denominated 
 on the face thereof, the "Sewer Fund of the city of New Britain, 
 second series," to an amount not exceeding in the whole the 
 sum of fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars, bearing interest at no 
 greater rate than five per cent, per annum, the principal of 
 which shall be payable at some time or times within thirty years 
 from issuing the same, and the amount of said notes, scrip, or 
 certificates which may at any time be issued, together with the 
 times of payment of the principal and interest thereof, and the 
 rate of interest shall be prescribed by said city in legal meeting 
 for that purpose called and held ; and said notes, scrip, or certifi- 
 cates shall be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the 
 treasurer of said ciiy, and shall, when issued be obligatory on 
 said city and the inhabitants thereof according to the tenor of 
 the same. 
 
 sewer com- SEC. 2. The board of sewer commissioners of said city shall 
 
 missioned. ^e tQe t rus t ees o f tne no t e s, scrip, or certificates of debt issued 
 
 by said city under the provisions of this act, shall superintend
 
 NEW BRITAIN SEWER BONDS. 83 
 
 the issuing of the same, and regulate the particular form thereof; 
 and after the same or any part thereof shall be issued, they may 
 sell the same in such manner and~on such terms as they may 
 deem best, or they may pledge the same for moneys borrowed 
 by said city to be used for sewer purposes. Said board shall 
 keep a record of all such notes, scrip, or certificates issued, dis- 
 posed of or pledged, and all moneys received by said board shall 
 be by them paid over to the treasurer of said city. 
 
 SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage, and 
 when approved by a majority of the legal voters of said city 
 present at a meeting duly warned and held for that purpose. 
 
 Approved, March 12th, 1886. 
 
 SEWER FUND BONDS, THIRD SERIES, 
 
 Resolved by this Assembly : 
 
 SECTION 1. That for the purpose of defraying the cost and 
 
 J Sewer l:onds, 
 
 expense incident to the laying out, constructing, repairing, and*ioo,ooo. 
 extending sewers and drains in the city of New Britain, and to 
 increase the sewer facilities of said city, and for said purpose 
 only, the said city of New Britain is hereby authorized and em- 
 powered to issue notes, scrip, or certificates of debt, to be de- 
 nominated OD the face thereof ; the "Sewer Fund of the city of 
 New Britain, third series," to an amount not exceeding in the 
 whole the sum of one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars, 
 bearing interest at no greater rate than five per cent, per annum, 
 the principal of which shall be payable at some time or times 
 within thirty years from issuing the same, and the amount of 
 said notes, scrip, or certificates of debt which may at any time 
 be issued, together with the times of payment of the principal 
 and interest thereof, and the rate of interest, shall be prescribed 
 by said city in legal meeting for that purpose called and held ; 
 and said notes, scrip, or certificates of debt shall be signed by 
 the mayor and countersigned by the treasurer of said city, and 
 shall, when issued, be obligatory on said city and the inhabitants 
 thereof according to the tenor of the same.
 
 84 
 
 Duties of 
 sewer com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Approval 
 necessary. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN SEWER BONDS. 
 
 SEC. 2. The hoard of sewer commissioners of said city shall 
 be the trustees of the notes, scrip, or certificates of debt issued 
 03- said city under the provisions of this act, shall superintend the 
 issuing of the same, and regulate the particular form thereof; 
 and after the same or any part thereof shall be issued, they may 
 sell the same in such manner and on such terms as they may 
 deem best, or they may pledge the same for moneys borrowed 
 by said cit}' to be used for sewer purposes. Said board shall 
 keep a record of all such notes, scrip, or certificates issued, dis- 
 posed of, or pledged, and all moneys received by said board 
 shall be by them paid over to the treasurer of said city. 
 
 SEC. 3. This act shall not take effect until approved by a 
 majority of the legal voters of said city present at a meeting 
 duly warned and held for thai purpose. 
 
 Approved, May oth, 1893. 
 
 SEWER FUND BONDS, FOURTH SERIES, 
 
 Resolved by this Assembly : 
 (1895) SECTION 1. That for the purpose of defraying the cost and 
 
 Sewer bonds, -j i ** 
 
 $100,000. expenses incident to laying out, constructing, repairing, and ex" 
 
 tending sewers and drains in the city of New Britain, and the 
 increase of sewer facilities of said city, and for said purposes 
 onl}', the said city of New Britain is hereb3" authorized and em- 
 powered to issue notes, scrip, or certificate? of debt, to be de- 
 nominated on the face thereof, the "Sewer Fund of the city of 
 New Britain, fourth series," to an amount not exceeding in the 
 whole the sum of one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars, 
 bearing interest at no greater rate than five per cent, per annnm, 
 the principal of which shall be payable at some time or times, 
 within thirty years from issuing same, and the amount of said 
 notes, scrip, or certificates of debt, which may at any time be 
 issued, together with the times of payment of the principal and 
 interest thereof, and the rate of interest, shall be prescribed by 
 said city in legul meeting for that purpose called and held ; and 
 said notes, scrip, or certificates of debt shall be signed by
 
 NEW BRITAIN SEWER BONDS. 85 
 
 the mayor and countersigned by the treasurer of said city, and 
 shall, when issued, be obligatory on said city and the inhabitants 
 thereof according to the tenor of the same. 
 
 SEC. 2. The board of sewer commissioners of said city shall Duties of 
 
 * sewer coin- 
 
 be the trustees of the notes, scrip, or certificates of debt issued missioners. 
 
 by said city under the provisions of this act, shall superintend 
 the issuing of the same, and regulate the particular form there- 
 of; and after the same or any part thereof shall be issued, it 
 may sell the same in such manner and on such terms as it may x 
 
 deem best, but no bonds shall be sold at less than par, or it may 
 pledge the same for moneys borrowed by said city to be used 
 for sewer purposes. Said board shall keep a record of all such 
 notes, scrip, or certificates issued, disposed of, or pledged, and 
 all moneys received by said board shall be by them paid over to 
 the treasurer. 
 
 SEC. 3. This act shall not take effect until approved by a Approval 
 
 * ntJCGSScir 
 
 majority of the legal voters of said cit} r present at a meeting duly 
 warned and held for that purpose. 
 Approved, June 20th, 1895.
 
 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 
 
 AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE 
 CITY OF NEW BRITAIN. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprtsentati'ces in General 
 Assembly convened : 
 
 SECTION i. The Common Council of the city of New Britain is 
 hereby authorized to provide by ordinance for the placing of any 
 or all electric wires now or hereafter in use in said city under- 
 ground, by the parties owning or operating the same, when in the 
 judgment of said council public interests require the same to be 
 done, under such restrictions and in such manner as said council 
 may prescribe. 
 
 SEC. 2. Said Common Council may also provide penalties for 
 failure of any person or persons to carry out all reasonable orders 
 under this act regarding said wires. 
 
 SEC. 3. The city of New Britain is hereby authorized also to 
 build, construct, and maintain, in any street or highway, or in any 
 part of any street or highway in said city, main and lateral con- 
 duits, with manholes and ventilating shafts, and all other appurten- 
 ances pertaining to conduits, for telephone, telegraph, fire alarm, 
 electric light, and all other electric wires now or hereafter used in 
 said city, and to cause all such wires to be placed in such con- 
 duits, and to charge for the use of said conduits such reasonable 
 sum by way of annual or other rental as the Common Council of 
 said city may determine, and said Common Council may pass 
 such orders and ordinances as may be necessary and proper to 
 carry into effect the power hereby conferred. The sum to be 
 charged for the use of such conduits shall be determined upon the 
 following basis, viz. : A reasonable interest upon the cost of con- 
 struction, and the creation and maintenance of a sinking fund for
 
 88 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 
 
 the repair, maintenance, and cost of conduits, manholes, ventilat- 
 ing shafts, and appurtenances, and the sum charged shall be appor- 
 tioned among the users of said conduits according to the number 
 of ducts occupied therein by the parties or corporations owning or 
 using the same. When the amount to be charged to any corpora- 
 tion or other party by way of annual or other rental has been 
 determined by the Common Council of said city, written notice 
 thereof, signed by the clerk of said city, shall be given to said 
 parties or corporations, and if any such party or corporation shall 
 claim to be aggrieved by such determination of such sum so to be 
 charged for the use of the conduit, such party or corporation, 
 within thirty days after notice of such determination of the same, 
 may appeal by petition to any judge of the superior court, or any 
 judge of the court of common pleas for Hartford county for a re- 
 estimate of such sum ordered to be paid by it ; and such appeal 
 shall be heard by said judge to whom the same shall be taken. 
 As many of the parties interested in said matter as choose to do 
 so may join in such appeal, and when separate appeals are taken 
 by different parties concerning said estimate of said sum to be 
 charged for the use of said conduits, all of said appeals shall be 
 heard and tried as one cause. Said appeal shall be by a suitable 
 petition in writing, setting forth the action of said Common Coun- 
 cil in the premises, and asking for a re-estimate of the sum to be 
 charged for the use of said conduits, with a citation attached 
 thereto, signed by any authority authorized to sign writs returna- 
 ble before the judge to whom the appeal may be taken, at 2 o'clock 
 p. m., two weeks from the date of said petition, and said citation 
 shall be served upon the clerk of said city at least six days before 
 the return day thereof. If, upon hearing upon said appeal, said 
 judge shall find cause to alter said estimate, then he shall proceed 
 to re-estimate the sum which shall be charged the appellant or ap- 
 pellants for the use of said conduits, and such re-estimate shall be 
 binding upon the city of New Britain and upon the appellant or 
 appellants. Such judge shall have for the purpose of disposing of 
 such appeal all the power of the superior court, and may render 
 judgment thereon, which may be reviewed by the supreme court 
 of errors on appeal, in the manner provided by law, and may tax 
 costs in favor of either party, and issue execution for the sum to
 
 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 89 
 
 be taxed, as by civil process in the superior court. Said judge 
 shall, when the proceedings in any case arising under this act are 
 closed, return all the papers connected with the case to the clerk 
 of said city, to be by him kept on file. The sura to be charged 
 for the use of such conduits upon the application of any person or 
 corporation owning or using wires therein, shall be re-estimated as 
 of the first day of January in each year. Any person or corpora- 
 tion having the right to put wires in such conduits, may put the 
 same therein at any time, without charge, until the first of January 
 of the ensuing year. 
 
 SEC. 4. In case any conduit is built and maintained by any 
 party or corporation within said city, and the parties or corpora- 
 tions who are to use said conduits in connection with the builders 
 or owners thereof cannot agree with the owner upon the amount 
 to be paid for such joint use and occupancy, either party owning, 
 using, or desiring to use said conduits, may apply to any judge of 
 the superior court or a judge of the court of common pleas for 
 Hartford county, by a suitable petition in writing, setting forth 
 the facts relating to the ownership, use, and proposed use of said 
 conduit, and that the parties interested are unable to agree as to 
 the sum to be paid for such joint use, and said judge shall fix said 
 sum, and the basis for his action shall be the same as hereinbefore 
 provided for the use of conduits owned by the city. Said petition 
 shall be accompanied by a citation attached thereto, signed by 
 any authority authorized to sign writs returnable before the judge 
 to whom it is brought, at 2 o'clock p. m., two weeks from the date 
 of said petition, and said citation shall be served upon all parties 
 interested at least six days before the return day thereof. As 
 many parties interested as desire to do so may join in one petition, 
 and, if there are separate petitions pending before the same judge 
 at the same time, they may be heard and tried as one cause, and 
 he shall have the same power as he would have in case of appeals, 
 and the right of the parties to have his decision reviewed shall be 
 the same as hereinbefore provided. 
 
 SEC. 5. For the purpose of defraying the costs and expenses 
 incident to the construction, completion, and maintenance, repairs, 
 and extension of conduits, manholes, ventilating shafts, and appur- 
 tenances authorized to be built by said city by this amendment,
 
 90 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 
 
 said city of New Britain is hereby authorized and empowered to 
 issue notes, scrip, or certificates of debt, to be denominated on the 
 face thereof, "The subway fund of the city of New Britain, first 
 series," to an amount not exceeding in the whole the sum of fifty 
 thousand dollars, bearing interest at no greater rate than five per 
 cent, per annum, the principal of which shall be payable at some 
 certain time or times within thirty years from issuing the same, 
 and the amount of said notes, scrip, or certificates which may at 
 any time be issued, together with times of payment of the princi- 
 pal and interest thereof, and the rate of interest, shall be subscribed 
 by said city in legal meeting for that purpose called and held, and 
 said notes, scrip, or certificates shall be signed by the mayor and 
 countersigned by the treasurer of said city, and shall, when issued, 
 be obligatory on said city and the inhabitants thereof according to 
 the tenor of the same. 
 
 SEC. 6. Nothing in this resolution contained shall empower the 
 Common Council of said city to cause the trolley wires of the street 
 railway in said city or high potential wires, that is to say electric 
 wires carrying five hundred volts, or over, or wires used in operat- 
 ing signals on any railroad, or wires used in connection with the 
 operation of any railroad by means of electricity upon a third rail 
 system, to be placed underground. 
 
 SEC. 7. Whenever a meeting of the Common Council shall be 
 called for the purpose of filling any vacancy, as provided in sec- 
 tion five of the present charter of the city of New Britain, written 
 notice of said meeting, signed by the clerk of said city, and prop- 
 erly addressed, shall be mailed to each member of said Common 
 Council by said clerk, at least three days before the time of said 
 meeting. 
 
 SEC. 8. Whenever an appeal shall be taken, as provided in sec- 
 tion 56 of the present charter of said city, such appeal shall sus- 
 pend the payment of damages to all parties interested, as well as 
 the payment of benefits, until said appeal shall be finally deter- 
 mined, and upon the determination of said appeal, said damages 
 shall become immediately due and payable from said city. 
 
 SEC. 9. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the pro- 
 visions of this act are hereby repealed. 
 
 SEC. 10. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
 
 Approved June 20, 1899.
 
 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 91 
 
 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE 
 CITY OF NEW BRITAIN TO ISSUE BONDS. 
 
 Resolved by this Assembly : 
 
 SECTION i. That the city of New Britain be and is hereby 
 authorized and empowered to issue bonds, notes, scrip, or certifi- 
 cates of debt, to be denominated on the face thereof the Sewer Fund 
 of the City of New Britain, to an amount not exceeding in the 
 whole the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, bearing 
 interest at no greater rate than four per cent, per annum, the prin- 
 cipal of which shall be payable at some certain time within twenty- 
 five years from issuing the same, and the amount of said bonds, 
 notes, scrip, or certificates which may at any time be issued, 
 together with the times of payment of the principal and interest 
 thereof, and the rate of interest, shall be prescribed by said city in 
 legal meeting for that purpose called and held, and said bonds, 
 notes, scrip, or certificates shall be signed by the mayor and 
 countersigned by the treasurer of said city, and shall when issued 
 be obligatory on said city and the inhabitants thereof, according 
 to the tenor of the same. Said bonds, note, scrip, or certificates 
 of debt, or the funds raised thereon, shall be used solely in ex- 
 change for, or in purchasing or discharging evidences of debt 
 heretofore issued by said city of New Britain, and which become 
 due and payable July i, 1899, to the amount of one hundred and 
 fifty thousand dollars. And any income derived from the sale of 
 said bonds, notes, scrip, or certificates of debt in excess of said 
 one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, shall be paid into the 
 treasury of said city and credited to the account of construction 
 and repairs of sewers and drains. 
 
 SEC. 2. This resolution, when approved by a majority of the 
 legal voters of said city present at a meeting duly warned and held 
 for that purpose, shall be obligatory upon said city and upon the 
 inhabitants thereof, according to the tenor and purport of the same. 
 
 Approved April n, 1899.
 
 90 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 
 
 AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF 
 NEW BRITAIN. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
 Assembly convened : 
 
 The Common Council of the city of New Britain, in addition to 
 the powers heretofore conferred upon it, shall also have the power 
 to make such orders or ordinances as it shall see fit in relation to 
 licensing and regulating, within the limits of said city, peddling, 
 buying, selling, and dealing in junk, old metals, rags, glass, or 
 second-hand articles, and to make the violation of such ordinances 
 a misdemeanor to be prosecuted before the police court of said 
 city, and to prescribe penalties for such violation. 
 
 Approved, May 29, 1901. 
 
 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF NEW BRITAIN 
 TO ISSUE BONDS FOR ITS WATER SUPPLY. 
 
 Resolved by this Assembly : 
 
 SECTION i. That for the purpose of defraying the cost and 
 expense of improving and increasing the water supply of the city 
 of New Britain, and of fully and completely carrying out the pro- 
 visions of a resolution concerning the water supply of New Britain 
 and authorizing the issue of bonds by the city, approved June 10, 
 1897, and for the purpose of doing all and singular the acts and 
 things and making the improvements mentioned in section two of 
 said resolution and defraying the cost and expense thereof, said 
 city of New Britain is hereby authorized and empowered to issue 
 notes, scrip, or certificates of debt in addition to the amount- 
 named in said section two of said resolution to a further amount, 
 not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars, which shall be denom- 
 inated on their face Water Fund of the City of New Britain, Eighth 
 Series, and shall in all respects be issued in conformity to the pro- 
 visions of a resolution authorizing the city of New Britain to issue 
 additional water bonds, approved July i, 1873.
 
 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 93 
 
 SEC. 2. The said issue of notes, scrip, or certificates of debt to 
 said amount not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars is hereby 
 authorized in addition to all other sums heretofore authorized to 
 be issued by said city or the water commissioners thereof. 
 
 SEC. 3. The provisions of a resolution authorizing the city of 
 New Britain to redeem its outstanding bonds by the issue of new 
 bonds, approved March 10, 1893, shall apply to the bonds, notes, 
 or certificates of debt to be issued under the provisions of this 
 resolution. 
 
 SEC. 4. This resolution shall not take effect until approved by 
 a majority of the legal voters of said city present at a meeting 
 duly warned for that purpose. 
 
 Approved, June 4, 1901. 
 
 AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY 
 
 OF NEW BRITAIN CONCERNING THE SEWAGE 
 
 OF THE CITY. 
 
 Resolved by this Assembly : 
 
 SECTION i. That the Common Council of the city of New Britain 
 shall have power upon recommendation of the board of sewer com- 
 missioners of said city, to lay out, build, construct, and repair 
 drains, conduits and sewers, or a system of sewerage, wherever it 
 may deem the same necessary, through or along any street, high- 
 way, or public or private grounds in said city, and if, in the judg- 
 ment of said Common Council necessary or expedient, to extend, 
 build, and construct said drains and sewers, or a system of sewer- 
 age, and the outlet or outlets of said system, and the connections 
 thereof, beyond the limits of said city, in or through the towns of 
 New Britain, Newington and Berlin, or in or through either of said 
 towns, and in, through, over, and upon the streets, highways, and 
 public and private lands in any of said towns, and under the right 
 of way or rights of way of any railroad in any of said towns, and 
 in said city or towns, or either or any of them, except as herein- 
 after provided, for the disposal of sewage and sewerage of said 
 city, and of the inhabitants and corporations therein, to construct,
 
 94 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 
 
 operate and maintain sewer works and sewer beds for filtration and 
 other purposes connected with the disposal of the sewage and sew- 
 erage of said city, and of the inhabitants and corporations therein, 
 and for the purposes above named, or any of them, and for the 
 purpose of improving and utilizing lands and estate acquired or to 
 be acquired for any of said purposes, the said city of New Britain 
 may take and acquire by purchase or otherwise any lands in fee, 
 and any rights or easements in lands, water courses, or ways, 
 within the limits of said city and towns, or either or any of them, 
 that said Common Council may deem necessary, and said Com- 
 mon Council may cause all roof, storm, and ground water, as well 
 as all acids, unless neutralized to the satisfaction and acceptance 
 of the board of sewer commissioners, to be separated from house 
 or crude sewage, and from the system that may be adopted for the 
 carrying of such sewage ; provided, that no such sewer works or 
 sewer beds other than drains, conduits, sewers, and necessary 
 appurtenances for carrying sewage and sewerage, shall be estab- 
 lished outside the limits of said town of New Britain, excepting in 
 the section of country in the town of Berlin bounded north by the 
 Berlin town line, east by the north and south highway next east of 
 Christian lane, and the Hartford and New Haven turnpike, south 
 by the Mattabeset river and land of Gustave Wahl, and west by 
 Christian lane. The only routes to be followed in conducting 
 sewage and sewerage from the city and town of New Britain to the 
 filtration beds and sewer works to be established under this, resolu- 
 tion, so far as said routes lie outside of the town of New Britain, 
 are described as follows, to wit : The route leading from the Piper 
 Brook outfall in the city of New Britain, after it leaves the New 
 Britain town line, passes through the lands of William Richards, 
 H. Fields, J. G. Peterson, J. W. Holmes, and W. L. Davis, in the 
 town of Newington, east of the highway known as Christian lane, 
 and through the lands of W. L. Davis, J. Sauter, Frederick Spletts- 
 toeszer, August Splettstoeszer, passing under the Middletown branch 
 of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company's 
 tracks, and crossing the highway known as the Beckley Quarter 
 road, and through lands of Charles Leigey, all in the town of 
 Berlin. The route leading from the Glen street outfall in the city 
 of New Britain, after it leaves the New Britain town line, passes
 
 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 95 
 
 through lands of Joseph Towers, estate of Patrick Devitt, deceased, 
 and under the Berlin branch of the New York, New Haven and 
 Hartford Railroad Company and, through the farms of Theodore 
 A. Stanley and Charles Ellis in the town of Berlin near the town 
 line of New Britain ; also through lands of J. W. Holmes and W. 
 L. Davis in the town of Newington, and through lands of John 
 Sauter, Frederick Splettstoeszer and August Splettstoeszer, and 
 passing under the Middletown branch of the New York, New 
 Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, and crossing the high- 
 way known as the Beckley Quarter road, and through lands of 
 Charles Leigey, all in the town of Berlin. As an alternative route 
 from both said outfalls, after said routes come together at Christian 
 lane near the New Britain town line, the route may follow in 
 Christian lane southerly to the north line of John Sauter's farm, 
 thence through Sauter's farm to the routes above described on said 
 Sauter's farm, and thence to the terminus of said route on land of 
 Charles Leigey, it shall be as first above described. 
 
 SEC. 2. Whenever under the provisions of this resolution it 
 shall in the judgment of said Common Council become necessary 
 or expedient for said city to take and acquire any land or rights or 
 easements in lands, water courses, or ways within the limits of 
 said city or town of New Britain or the towns of Berlin and New- 
 ington, or either of them, the Common Council of said city shall 
 appoint a committee to prepare a descriptive survey of the work 
 contemplated being done therewith or thereupon, and to agree with 
 the parties as to the damages on account of such work, and the 
 agreement made by them, if any, having been ratified by said 
 Common Council, and the sums agreed upon as damages having 
 been paid to the parties entitled thereto, or deposited to their 
 credit in the city treasury, said city may go on to the completion 
 of said improvement and do the acts necessary or convenient for 
 that purpose ; but if said Common Council shall be unable to 
 agree with the parties interested as to the damages aforesaid, any 
 judge of the superior court or the supreme court of errors may, on 
 application of said city or of any party in interest, after causing 
 such notice to be given of the pendency of such application as he 
 shall deem just and reasonable, appoint three judicious and dis- 
 interested freeholders of the county of Hartford to estimate such
 
 96 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 
 
 damages, and said committee having been duly sworn and having 
 given notice of the time and place of its meeting for the purpose 
 aforesaid, in the manner prescribed by said judge, shall meet at 
 the time and place designated, and having heard all parties in 
 interest who shall appear before it, shall determine the amount of 
 the damage sustained by any and all persons or corporations whose 
 lands, water courses, or ways, or rights or easements therein, shall 
 have been taken by said city pursuant to the provisions of this 
 resolution, and in determining said damages said committee may 
 take into account the special benefits received by said parties. 
 Thereupon said committee shall report in writing to the said judge, 
 who may confirm, correct, or set aside said report as he may deem 
 just, in which latter case, said committee, or a new one to be then 
 appointed by said judge, shall proceed as 'before, and said report 
 being finally accepted by said judge shall be recorded by the clerk 
 of the superior court for Hartford county, and the award of 
 damages therein contained shall be final between the parties ; all 
 papers connected with said case, by whomsoever held, shall then 
 be delivered to the clerk of the city of New Britain, who shall keep 
 the same on file for public inspection, and said damages being 
 paid or deposited as before provided, said city may proceed to 
 complete said public improvement and do all acts necessary or 
 convenient for that purpose. Nothing contained in this resolution 
 shall be construed as absolving said city from liability to any per- 
 son or corporation for damages which may be occasioned to the 
 person or property of such person or corporation in addition to 
 the damages agreed upon or ascertained in the manner hereinbe- 
 fore provided, by reason of the use made by said city of any land 
 or rights or easements in land, water courses, or ways acquired by 
 said city under the authority of this resolution. 
 
 SEC. 3. Said Common Council shall have power to assess such 
 portions as it may deem reasonable of the cost of the public works 
 and improvements above described, upon the property within the 
 limits of said city (not having already paid a regular assessment 
 for sewer benefits) for the carrying off of the sewage, surface, or 
 other drainage for which said sewer, drain, or improvement may 
 be constructed, or which may be in any way improved or benefited 
 thereby, and the sum so assessed shall be a lien upon the said
 
 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 97 
 
 property subject to the provisions of section fifty-three of the 
 present charter of said city, as to continuance, foreclosure, collec- 
 tion, and release of the same, and subject also to all the other 
 provisions of said section ; and in assessing such benefits, said 
 Common Council shall not be limited to the property abutting on 
 said improvement, but benefits may be assessed upon any person 
 or corporation whose property is benefited by the construction of 
 such sewer, drain, or improvement. Such assessments shall be 
 made to the same extent, with the same limitations, and in the 
 same manner as sewer assessments are now made under the charter 
 of said city. 
 
 SEC. 4. When the majority of the property owners on any street 
 outside of the city limits and within the town of New Britain shall 
 bring a petition to the Common Council of said city for the con- 
 struction or extension of sewers in such street, said Common 
 Council may order the construction or extension of such sewer, 
 and assessments for benefits therefore may be made upon any 
 person or corporation whose property is benefited by the construc- 
 tion or extension of the same, to the same extent and in the same 
 manner as if said sewer were constructed upon a street within the 
 limits of said city, and said Common Council may, in addition to 
 such assessments, require the petitioners for such sewer to pay, or 
 give a satisfactory bond, payable to said city, to secure the pay- 
 ment of the expenses to which 'the city shall be put in making 
 maps, surveys and assessments for said sewer and the construction 
 and extension of the same, and may require the payment of an ad- 
 ditional sum for the privilege of making connections with said 
 sewer. 
 
 SEC. 5. For the purpose of defraying the costs and expenses 
 incurred under the provisions of this resolution of every name and 
 nature, said city of New Britain is hereby authorized and em- 
 powered to issue notes, scrip, or certificates of debt, to be denom- 
 inated on the face thereof, "The Sewer Fund of the City of New 
 Britain, Sixth Series," to an amount not exceeding in the whole the 
 sum of three hundred thousand dollars, bearing interest at no 
 grater rate than five per centum per annum, the principal of which 
 shall be payable at some certain time or times within thirty years 
 from issuing the same, and the amount of said notes, scrip, or
 
 98 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 
 
 certificates, which may at any time be issued, together with times 
 of payment of the principal and interest thereof, and the rate of 
 interest, shall be prescribed by said city in legal meeting for that 
 purpose called and held, and said notes, scrip, or certificates, 
 shall be signed by the mayor, and countersigned by the treasurer 
 of said city, and shall, when issued, be obligatory on said city 
 and the inhabitants thereof, according to the tenor of the same. 
 
 SEC. 6. The police court of the city of New Britain shall have 
 the same authority over the lands, property, and estate of said 
 city owned or used by it under the provisions of this resolution, 
 and within a distance of one hundred rods from said property and 
 estate, that it now has in part of the town of Southington covered 
 by the waters of Shuttle Meadow lake, and all officers authorized 
 Jo serve process issued by and returnable to said police court 
 shall have the same power to arrest any person or persons upon 
 said property or estate, or within one hundred rods therefrom, as 
 such officers have now in the town of Southington under section 
 eighty-seven of the charter of said city, but nothing herein con- 
 tained shall affect the jurisdiction of grand jurors or other inform- 
 ing officers of the town or towns within which said property or 
 estate is situated, over crimes, offences, and misdemeanors, com- 
 mitted in any part of said town or towns. 
 
 SEC. 7. Said board of sewer commissioners is authorized and 
 empowered to attend to the construction, supervision, care, and 
 management of all public and private drains heretofore built by 
 said city, or built under the provisions of this resolution, as well 
 as all filter beds and sewer works and all connections with such 
 public sewers or drains, or any of the sewer systems of said city, 
 and shall have full charge of the use made or to be made of said 
 public or private sewers or drains and filter beds and sewer works, 
 and may by themselves and their agents enter into or upon any 
 and all 'property or estate connected in any way with the public 
 sewers or drains to investigate and examine such connections, and 
 shall have authority to order the discontinuance of any improper 
 use of said sewers, drains, or sewer connections, and of any 
 use not conforming to the regulations adopted by said 
 board. Said sewer commissioners shall have full authority over 
 the use to be made of. all connections, and shall prepare a set of
 
 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 99 
 
 rules, regulations, and requirements covering the use and con- 
 struction of all branches and connections, private or public, that 
 are now made or are to be made to said sewer system, and may 
 exercise any additional powers conferred upon them by said Com- 
 mon Council; they shall keep a record of their official proceed- 
 ings, and shall render a report of their doings to said Common 
 Council annually and oftener if by said Common Council request- 
 ed, including a general exhibit of the state of the public works, 
 and account of sums required to be expended therefor, and such 
 other matters or information as may be called for by said Com- 
 mon Council; provided, that said board shall always be under the 
 direction of the Common Council of said city. 
 Approved, June 17, 1901. 
 
 AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF 
 NEW BRITAIN CONCERNING THE SUBWAY. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate aud House of Representatives in General 
 Assembly convened: 
 
 SECTION i. Section five of the act amending the charter of the 
 city of New Britain, approved June 20, 1899,. is hereby amended 
 by striking out the word "fifty" in the eighth line of said section and 
 substituting in lieu thereof the word "thirty-six," and no bonds 
 shall be issued by said city under the provisions of said act ex- 
 ceeding the sum of thirty-six thousand dollars which are now out- 
 standing. 
 
 SEC. 2. Section six of said act is hereby amended by striking 
 out in the third and fourth lines thereof the words "or high poten- 
 tial wires, that is to say, electric wires carrying five hundred volts 
 or over." 
 
 SEC. 3. The rental derived by said city for the use of the con- 
 duits already constructed, and the money on hand and unexpend- 
 ed derived from the sale of bonds authorized by said act, shall be 
 used only for the maintenance, repair, and for reasonable supervis- 
 ion of said conduits, and for providing a sinking fund for the pay- 
 ment of the bonds already issued for such construction. No other 
 conduits shall be constructed by said city without further authori- 
 ty of the general assembly obtained for that purpose. 
 
 SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
 Approved, June 17, 1901.
 
 100 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 
 
 AN ACT AMENDING AN ACT AMENDING 
 THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF NEW BRITAIN. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
 Assembly convened: 
 
 SECTION i. Section one of an act authorizing the city of New 
 Britain to increase its water supply and issue additional bonds 
 therefor, approved May n, 1903, is hereby amended to read as 
 follows: The city of New Britain, a municipal corporation locat- 
 ed within the county of Hartford in this state, for the purpose of 
 increasing its water supply, is hereby authorized and empowered 
 to acquire and take, by purchase or otherwise, and hold, the 
 waters, or so much thereof as may in the opinion of the board of 
 water commissioners of said city be necessary, of the North 
 Branch, so called, of the Pequabuck river, and any or all of its 
 tributaries, together with any and all water rights connected there- 
 with, whether owned by any municipal, public, or private water 
 company, corporation, or otherwise, at any point or points on said 
 North Branch and said tributaries within the town of Burlington 
 in this state and above the road known as the Old Turnpike con- 
 necting the borough of Bristol and the village of Farmington, and, 
 for the purpose of holding, storing, purifying, or conveying the 
 waters aforesaid, may in like manner acquire and take any or all 
 lands, rights of way, easements, and other property within the 
 limits of the towns of Burlington, Bristol, Plainville, Southington 
 and New Britain, whether owned by any municipal, public, or 
 private water company, corporation, or otherwise, which may in 
 the opinion of said board be necessary, and may erect on any 
 lands so acquired and taken, proper dams, reservoirs, fixtures, 
 structures, and other appliances, and make such excavations and 
 provide such other means as may in the opinion of said board be 
 necessary or advisable for the purpose of holding and conveying 
 said waters to and into Shuttle Meadow lake, so called, in said 
 town of Southington, or to and into the said city of New Britain, 
 and may construct and lay down such conduits, canals, pipes, or
 
 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 101 
 
 other works under, through, or over any lands, water courses, 
 railroads, and public or private ways, as may in the opinion of 
 said board be necessary and convenient for the use of said city ; 
 and, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions and objects of 
 this act, may dig up any such lands and rights of way, and, under 
 the direction of the board of selectmen of the town in which the 
 work is located, may enter upon and dig up any such public ways 
 in said town in such manner as to cause the least hindrance to 
 public travel, and shall hold the town in which such ways are 
 located harmless from all liabilities to parties claiming damages 
 from any cause resulting from the acts of said city. The said 
 city shall pay all damages sustained by any person or corporation 
 in property by the taking of any land, right of way, water, water 
 source, water right, or easement, or any other thing done by said 
 city under the authority of this act. Said city, or any person or 
 corporation entitled to damages as aforesaid under this act who 
 fails to agree with said city as to the amount of damages sustained, 
 may have the damages assessed and determined in the manner 
 provided in the fifth section of "An Act to Supply the Borough of 
 New Britain with Water for Public and Private Purposes," approved 
 May 26, 1857. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as 
 to give to the city of New Britain the right to take or appropriate 
 any water, water source, water supply, or water right, from or 
 within the town of Southington. 
 
 SEC. 2. For the purposes of defraying the costs and expenses 
 of increasing the water supply of said city and fully carrying out 
 the purposes of this act, said city is hereby authorized to issue 
 bonds, notes, or certificates of debt, to be denominated on the 
 face thereof "Water Fund of the City of New Britain, ninth 
 series," to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of 
 three hundred thousand dollars, which bonds shall in all respects 
 be issued in conformity to the provisions of a resolution authoriz- 
 ing the city of New Britain to issue additional water bonds, 
 approved July i, 1873, excepting that the rate of interest upon 
 such bonds, notes, or certificates of debt shall not exceed five per 
 cent, per annum, and subject further to the provisions of a resolu- 
 tion authorizing the city of New Britain to redeem its outstanding 
 bonds by the issue of new bonds, approved March 10, 1893.
 
 102 AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER. 
 
 SEC. 3. All the rights granted to said city by this act and not 
 otherwise specifically provided for herein or in existing laws shall 
 be exercised by said board of water commissioners or their suc- 
 cessors in authority acting in behalf of said city. 
 
 SEC. 4. This act shall take effect when approved by a majority 
 of the legal voters of said city present and voting at a meeting 
 duly warned and held for that purpose. 
 
 Approved, May u, 1903. 
 
 AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE 
 CITY Of NEW BRITAIN. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Gen- 
 eral Assembly convened: 
 
 Section twenty-three of the act revising and amending the 
 charter of the city of New Britain, approved June 6, 1895, is 
 hereby amended by adding after the word " council " in the eighty- 
 fifth line of said section the words "and the chairman of the street 
 committee," so that the paragraph of said section containing said 
 line when amended shall read as follows: Provided, that no 
 alderman or councilman shall receive any fee, salary, compensa- 
 tion, or reward for services as such alderman or councilman, 
 except the president pro tempore of the common council and the 
 chairman of the street committee, until the said city shall have a 
 population of thirty thousand inhabitants. 
 
 Approved, June 9, 1903.
 
 CHARTER INDEX.
 
 104 CHARTER INDEX. 
 
 CHARTER INDEX, 
 
 Accounts, city, power of common council, relative to mode 
 
 of keeping, 22 
 Alderman, election and term of office, 12 
 to be resident of ward, - 12 
 vacancies filled by common council, - 12 
 senior defined, 18 
 consent of, in appointing and removing mem- 
 bers of the board of street commissioners, 33, 34 
 to sign return of names of jurors, - 43 
 to be present at drawing of names of jurors, 43 
 and selectmen, to determine highway appro- 
 priations, 32 
 Amusements, powers of council in relation to, 21 
 Appeals, see city and police court, assessments. 
 Appraisers, of damages and benefits, board of street com- 
 missioners, 33 
 Appropriations, for city expenses, city meeting to approve 
 
 estimates of, 26 
 
 estimates of, to 1 be published, 26 
 
 how made, -. 26 
 
 not to be exceeded, 27 
 
 for highways, 32 
 
 Arrests, at Shuttle Meadow, who may make, - 49 
 
 Assessment, of damages or compensation for land for 
 
 water-works, 65 
 of damages and benefits for land for streets, 
 
 building lines, sewers, &c., 33, 34, 35 
 
 disposal of, by council, . . 35 
 
 of damages, how paid, 36 
 
 to be deposited with treasurer, . 36 
 
 of damages and benefits in taking stream, 28
 
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 Assessment, of benefits, limit of amount, 35 
 
 names of persons assessed, and amounts, how 
 
 published, 36 
 
 a lien on land, takes precedence of other lien, 27, 31, 37 
 collected how, 29, 37 
 
 how continued in case of appeal, 37 
 
 appeals for re-assessment, when, how, and to 
 
 whom taken, and proceedings ia, 38, 39 
 
 appeals, heard by whom, - 38 
 
 sewer, by whom made, limit of amount, and 
 
 when collectible, - 27, 36, 37 
 
 Assistant city clerk, appointment and duties, . 18 
 
 Assistant judge of city and police court, appointment, term 
 
 of office and qualification of, 40, 44 
 
 powers and duties of, - 40, 44 
 
 salary of, 42 
 
 not disqualified in penal actions, 45 
 
 Attorney, see prosecuting attorney, corporation counsel. 
 Auditing committee, to audit report of treasurer, appoint- 
 ment of, 19 
 Auditor, city, election, term of office, n 
 for what bills to draw orders on treasurer, 19, 53, 55 
 
 Badges, see police. 
 
 Ballots, form of, 14 
 
 Ballot-boxes for wards, by whom provided and kept, 14, 15 
 
 Banners, flags, &c., over streets, 23 
 
 Bathing in public, 23 
 
 Bicycles, powers of council relative to regulating speed of, 23 
 
 Bonds, required of what city officers, 19 
 
 neglect or refusal to give, vacates what offices, 20 
 
 to be given to mayor, 19 
 
 ordinance to prescribe form, amount &c., 19 
 
 forfeited, by whom prosecuted, 48 
 
 for prosecution in city court, - 40, 42
 
 108 CHARTER INDEX. 
 
 Bonds, of clerk of police court, 46 
 in police court, and to whom payable, - 45, 48 
 
 water, of borough, obligatory on city, - 51 
 common council to have power to authorize and 
 
 control the issue of, 24 
 
 approval at city meeting necessary before issue of, 24 
 
 common council may take up outstanding, 24 
 sewer fund, 81 to 85 
 street, see street bonds. 
 
 act authorizing redemption of, by issue of new, 76 
 
 Bridges in city, town to make and repair, 32 
 Building, mode and materials, and alteration of, common 
 
 council may regulate, 20 
 limits, incombustible materials within, common 
 
 council may prescribe, 20 
 
 power of common council relative to, 22 
 lines, common council may designate, 27, 33 
 designating, notice required, and hearing relative 
 
 to, 32, 33 
 
 neglecting, penalty, and how recovered, 27 
 
 damages and benefits for, 34 
 removal of, through streets, power of common 
 
 council relative to, 2 2 
 
 demolition of, 2 1 
 
 egress from, - 21 
 
 Burials, 21 
 
 C 
 
 Cemeteries, trespassing in, 21 
 
 sinks, etc., power of common council relative to, 20 
 see also privies. 
 
 Chimneys, cleaning of, 21 
 
 City, a body politic and corporate, name, limits and powers, 9 
 act incorporating, how adopted, and takes effect 
 
 when, 59 
 
 repeals what, and how far, 58, 59 
 
 wards in, number, and boundaries, - 9, 10 
 
 chief executive magistrate of, 16
 
 CHARTER INDEX. 107 
 
 City, expenses, estimates and appropriations for, when 
 
 and how made, , - 26 
 
 penalties, fees, and forfeitures, for use of, - 50 
 water bonds, see water fund bonds, 
 
 may lay taxes, 20 
 
 liable for default of sheriff, 19 
 
 to lay walk, when, . . 30 
 City Auditor, see auditor. 
 
 City Clerk, election, term of office, oath, by whom adminis- 
 tered, n, 1 6 
 
 power and duties, 18 
 
 salary, by whom prescribed, and amount, - 23 
 clerk of common council, and to record votes of 
 
 same and of city, 18 
 
 records of, evidence in court, 18 
 to publish ordinances, and record fact and date 
 
 of publication, - 18 
 
 to keep voting lists and ballot boxes, - 15 
 to sign notices relative to streets and building 
 
 lines,, and assessments for, 32, 36 
 
 to sign certificates of lien, and release of liens, 
 
 for assessments, 31 
 to file papers relating to award of damages and 
 
 benefits from appropriation of streams, 29 
 
 to administer oath to city officers, 16 
 
 to record and publish election returns of wards, 15 
 to record his own serving of notices of orders 
 
 of common council, - 18 
 City Collector, see collector. 
 
 City Court, powers, jurisdiction, and practice in, - 39, 40 
 
 penalties for violation of ordinances recoverable in, 23 
 
 room, and accommodation for, 42 
 
 sessions of, held when, 39 
 process in actions brought to, how signed and 
 
 served, 42 
 
 form of action to recover fines, etc., 58 
 
 writs in, service and return, 42 
 bonds for prosecution in, how taken, 40, 42
 
 108 CHARTER INDEX. 
 
 City Court, attendance of sheriff upon, - 19 
 
 jurors for, when and how chosen, 42, 43 
 
 jury trial in, how obtained, 42, 43 
 
 jury for, drawing names and summoning, 42, 43 
 
 appeal from judgment in, 41 
 
 fees in, payable by clerk to city treasurer, 42 
 jury, witness, and officers' fees, clerk to pay and 
 
 how, , 42 
 
 judge of, how chosen, oath, and term of office, 40 
 
 judge, salary of, and payment, 42 
 
 judge, disqualification or inability of, 40 
 
 judge, substitute and pay of, 40 
 
 clerk of, appointment, oath, and term of office, 41 
 
 powers, duties, and fees, 41, 42 
 
 bond, and effect of neglect or refusal to 
 
 give, 20 
 to furnish party appealing attested copy 
 
 of record, 41 
 to issue warrant to sheriff to summon jury 
 
 for, 43 
 
 to keep names of jurors in boxes, 43 
 to be present at drawing of names of 
 
 jurors, 43 
 
 to pay over to treasurer fees received, 42 
 to pay jury, witnesses', and officers' fees, 
 
 and how, 42 
 
 to sign process in, 42 
 
 sworn annual account of, to treasurer, 42 
 City engineer, see engineer. 
 City meetings, see meetings. 
 
 City officers, election, term of office, and residence, u, 12, 13 
 
 oath of, and by whom administered, 16 
 
 liability of, in incurring obligations, 27 
 
 compensation of, 23 
 
 elections of, in case of tie vote, 12 
 
 City offices, vacancies, how and when filled, 12, 13 
 
 vacant from neglect to give bonds, how filled, 19, 20
 
 CHARTER INDEX. 109 
 
 Gity rate bill maker, see rate bill maker, 
 sheriff, see sheriff, 
 surveyor, see surveyor, 
 treasurer, see treasurer. 
 Clerk of city, see city clerk. 
 
 and police courts, see city and police courts, 
 fire companies, see fire department, 
 police commissioners, how appointed, 52 
 
 fire commissioners, how appointed, 54 
 
 Coasting, see nuisance. 
 
 Collector, city, election, and term of office, n 
 
 powers and duties, bond, and effect of neglect 
 
 to give, . - 19, 20 
 
 proceedings against, when not performing trust, 19 
 Committee to lay out street and building lines, duty and 
 
 report of, - 32, 33 
 
 to prepare survey, estimate, etc., in taking 
 
 stream, 28 
 
 assessment in taking stream, appointment, notice, 
 
 report of, - 28, 29 
 
 auditing, to audit report of treasurer, . . 19 
 health, see health, 
 finance, see finance, 
 license, see license, 
 sinking fund, see sinking fund, 
 supplies, see supplies, 
 on street lighting, see street lighting. 
 
 Common Council, how constituted, valid meetings and ad- 
 journment of .... 20 
 mayor presiding officer of meetings of, 16 
 acts of, done by major vote of members present, 20 
 disabilities of members, . . .26 
 subjects in relation to which to make orders and 
 
 ordinances, . . 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 
 
 votes, orders, etc., submitted to mayor, and 
 
 when disapproved how passed, . . 25 
 
 to make appropriations for city expenses, and 
 
 limits of power relative to, , . 26, 27
 
 110 CHARTER INDEX. 
 
 Common Council, to prescribe building lines and fire limits, 20, 2 1 
 
 power and duties relative to sewers and drains, 27 
 
 railings and guards, . . . 3 
 
 sidewalks and gutters, . . 30, 31 
 
 streets, highways, and street commissioner, 21, 40 
 
 lay-out of streets and building lines, . 32, 33 
 
 may apportion expense of laying walk, . 30, 31 
 
 hearing before, on street lay-outs, . . 32 
 
 manner of procedure in assessments, . 3z> 33 
 
 may retain report of street commissioners, . 35 
 
 to appoint police commissioners, and powers 
 
 relative to, . . . . 52 
 
 to appoint fire commissioners, and powers rela- 
 tive to, ... 54 
 constitutes a board of health, and powers, . 25 
 may appoint health committee, . . 25 
 to appoint corporation counsel, assistant attor- 
 ney and prosecuting attorney, . . 41 
 to provide room and accommodations for city 
 
 and police court, . . . 42, 46 
 
 arrangements by, for keeping persons sentenced 
 
 to jail or workhouse, . . .48 
 
 to choose jurors of city court, and number of, 43 
 
 may fix penalty for non-attendance of jurors, 43 
 may call out supernumerary police, . 53 
 
 powers relative to appropriation of streams, 28, 29 
 powers of, under act for water supply, . 50 
 
 to appoint water commissioners, when and how, 50 
 to order special elections in vacancies of city 
 
 offices, . . . . .12 
 
 to designate voting places in wards, . 13 
 
 to fix hour for opening and closing of polls in 
 
 special elections, . . . .14 
 
 to provide ballot boxes for wards, . 14, 15 
 
 when to regulate mode and materials of building 
 
 and alterations in buildings, . . 20, 21 
 
 to appoint auditing committee of report of 
 treasurer, , , , , ,19
 
 CHARTER INDEX. Ill 
 
 Common Council, to prescribe mode of procedure of board 
 
 of street commissioners, ... 33 
 
 to declare vacant wha't offices, and when, . 20 
 
 to regulate and provide for printing done for 
 
 city, . 22 
 
 to appoint board of sewer commissioners, and 
 
 powers relative to, . . .51 
 
 to appoint inspector of buildings, . . 80 
 
 consent of, necessary to allow fire and police 
 
 commissioners to sell, . . -55 
 
 to fix firemen's salaries, . . . 56 
 
 to ratify contracts, . . . -77 
 
 may elect street commissioner, . . 31 
 
 clerk of, and duties, . .18 
 
 proceedings of, to be recorded by clerk. . 18 
 
 to authorize and control the issue of bonds, Sub- 
 ject to approval of city meeting, . . 24 
 to take up outstanding bonds and to regulate 
 
 finances of the city, 24 
 
 Compensation, board of street commissioners, . 54 
 
 registrars, . 14 
 
 street commissioner, . .31 
 
 water commissioners, . . 67 
 
 Complaint, form of, -57 
 
 Constables, city and town, powers and duties, 42, 48 
 
 Contagious diseases, see health. 
 Conveyances, see public conveyances". 
 Corporation counsel, and assistant, appointment, powers, 
 
 and duties, . . 41 
 
 to be sworn, and to conduct all civil cases in 
 
 which the city is interested, . . 41 
 
 to be counsel to the corporation, . 41 
 
 additional counsel to be employed by, only 
 
 by consent of mayor, . 
 
 penalties and forfeitures may be recovered by, 
 when and how to prosecute forfeited bonds, 
 powers of counsel relative to election of, 
 may also be elected prosecuting attorney,
 
 112 CHARTER INDEX. 
 
 Counrilmen, number, election, term of office and residence, 11 
 County commissioner, when to apportion highway tax, . 32 
 commissioners, arrangement with for keeping 
 
 criminals. .... 48 
 
 Court, see city court. 
 
 of common pleas, appeals to judge of, frotn 
 
 assessment of board of street commissioners, 38 
 common pleas, judge of, petition to, for re- 
 assessment, ... . . .38 
 
 superior, or supreme, judge of, to appoint 
 
 assessment committee, when. . 28 
 
 supreme, judge to appoint appraisers of dam- 
 ages, when, . . . . .65 
 
 Crosswalks, made, paved, etc., at expense of city, . 29 
 
 Curbs, powers of council relative to, . . .30 
 
 D 
 
 Damages and benefits, see assessment. 
 Dead animals, see nuisance. 
 Deputy registrar, see registrars. 
 Deputy sheriff, see sheriff. 
 Drainage, see health. 
 Drains and sewers, see sewers. 
 Dismissions, see fire department. 
 
 Elections, city, annual, held by wards, when, . . n 
 
 officers elected at, and how, . . n 
 presiding officer of, and assistants, by whom 
 
 designated, . ,14 
 
 duties in regard to challenged votes, 14 
 
 to examine under oath, , 14 
 
 to have powers of moderators, , 15 
 
 who may vote at, . . I \ 15 
 
 names of officers each voter votes for at, written 
 
 or printed on one piece of paper, , 14
 
 CHARTER INDEX. 118 
 
 Elections, voting places in wards at, and notice of, . 14 
 
 annual, tie vote at, . . , .12 
 
 opening and closing of 'polls at, 14 
 
 council to regulate when, . . .22 
 
 Electric cars, see street cars. 
 
 Engineer., city, see also surveyor. 
 
 chief, and assistant, see also fire department. 
 
 Erection of buildings, see buildings. 
 
 Estimate of city expenses, . 26 
 
 Exhibitions, see amusements. 
 
 Expenses, see appropriations. 
 
 F 
 
 Fees, and costs, in city and police courts, 41, 42, 46, 47, 50 
 
 of application to judge for re-assessment, who 
 
 to pay, 38 
 
 of city clerk of city court for copy of record, 41 
 
 of justice acting as police judge, . 44 
 
 salaried officers not to receive, . . 47, 49 
 
 to be paid into city treasury, . 49 
 
 of witnesses summoned before police commissioners, 53 
 Fenders, see street cars. 
 Filth, see nuisance. 
 
 Finance committee, see also committee. 
 Fines, penalties, and forfeitures, see penalties. 
 Fire, district, prescribed by whom, . . . 21 
 
 Fire commissioners, appointment of and powers of council 
 
 relative to, .... 22, 56 
 
 number and term of office, . . .54 
 
 powers and duties, . .54 
 
 to be divided politically, . . .56 
 
 vacancies in, how filled, , 56 
 
 removals of, for cause, . . 55, 56 
 
 to appoint clerk, . 54 
 
 powers over fire department, . , 54 
 
 may remove or expel firemen, . 54 
 
 to have control of houses and apparatus, . 54
 
 114 CHARTER INDEX. 
 
 Fire commissioners, to notify city clerk of removals, etc., 54 
 
 to receive no pay, except chairman, . t. . 55 
 
 expenses of, how paid, ... 55 
 
 powers to purchase and make repairs, . 55 
 
 power to sell with consent of council, . 55 
 
 not to exceed appropriations, . . -55 
 
 to be sworn, . . . . 55 
 
 appointment, . . . . .54 
 
 personally liable, when, . . . 55 
 
 Fire companies, appointment of men in, 54, 55 
 
 department, fire commissioners to organize and control, 54 
 
 officers of, how chosen, . . . 54 
 
 dismissal of members, . . 54, 55 
 
 salaries to be fixed by council, . . 23 
 
 Firemen, how appointed, . . . . 54 
 
 removed or expelled, . . . 54 
 
 fines and discipline of, . . . 54 
 
 Flues, see also buildings. 
 
 Forms, for city and police court, ' :; ; . . 57, 58 
 
 of certificate and discharge of lien, . . 57 
 
 of order of appointment, * . . 57 
 
 of order for sidewalk and gutter, . . . 55 
 
 of ordinance, . . . > . 56 
 Foul water, see nuisance. 
 
 G 
 
 Gutters and sidewalks, see sidewalks. 
 
 Grand jurors, of town, not to make complaint to police court, 46 
 
 Grade of walks or gutters, changing within ten years, . 30 
 
 
 H 
 
 Health, common council a board of, and powers relative lo, 25 
 
 committee, council to appoint, . . .25 
 
 powers and duties of, . . 25 
 
 officers, council to appoint, . . . . 22
 
 CHARTER INDEX. 115 
 
 I 
 
 Inspector of articles offered for sale, power of common 
 
 council relative to appointing, . . 22 
 
 buildings, see buildings, 
 of workhouse, arrangements for criminals with, 48 
 
 Judge to appoint committee on stream assessments, . 28 
 of city court, see city court, police court, 
 of police court, see city court, police court. 
 
 Jurors, of city court, number, how and when chosen, . 43 
 
 summoning and drawing names of, 42, 43 
 
 penalty for not serving, . . 43 
 
 Jury, trial by, in city court, .... 42, 43 
 
 Justice of peace, acting judge of police court, when, . 44 
 
 restriction of powers of, . . 44 
 
 Land and other estate, for water-works, authority to take, 63 
 for laying additional water main, authority to take, 69 
 taking for public use, . . . .22 
 
 Ladders, see fire department. 
 
 Lien, on land, etc., assessments of benefits from lay-out of 
 
 streets and building lines. . . 27, 31, 37 
 
 assessments for drains and sewers, . . 27, 37 
 
 assessments of benefits from taking streams. . 29 
 
 expense of sidewalks and gutters, . . 31 
 
 certificate of, signing and recording of, . . 31 
 
 form of certificate, and discharge of, . . 57 
 
 continuance of, how limited, . . 31, 37 
 
 in case of appeal, . . . 37 
 
 how enforced, ... 22, 31, 37, 66 
 
 to be recorded, how, . . . . 31 
 
 on land, etc., taxes for expense of waterworks, . 66
 
 116 CHARTER INDEX. / 
 
 M 
 
 Manure, see nuisance. 
 
 Map, drawing, etc., of lay-out of streets, building lines, etc., 34 
 
 Mayor, election, term of office, and residence, . . 1 1 
 
 powers and duties, . . . . 16, 17 
 
 absence, inability, or vacancy in office of, .18 
 
 obstructing, or refusing to assist, . . 17 
 
 may commit to prison, . . . . . 16 
 
 may disperse disorderly assemblages, . . 16 
 
 may exercise powers of sheriff, , . .17 
 
 may call out militia, when, . . . 17 
 
 to recommend legislation, . . . 17 
 
 approval or disapproval by, of votes and ordinances, 25 
 report of, when made, recorded and published, . 17 
 when to issue distress warrants to collector, . 25, 31 
 when to issue warrants to sheriff against collector 
 
 neglecting trust, . . . . .19 
 
 when and how to call special city meetings relative 
 
 to ordinances, . . . . 25 
 
 to appoint and remove members, and fill vacancies 
 
 in board of street commissioners, when, . 33, 34 
 
 to sign assessment warrants, . . -37 
 
 to sign certificates of lien, and release of liens, 31 
 
 to sign tax warrants, . . . .19 
 
 to sign water fund bonds, . . . 71 
 
 to sign return of names of jurors, . . 43 
 
 may sign notice of lay-out of streets, and building 
 
 lines, and assessments for, . . . 32, 36 
 
 to sign descriptive survey of lay-out of streets, etc., 36 
 
 liability of, on overdrawn appropriation, . 27 
 
 to call meetings of council to fill vacancies in office, 13 
 
 salary of, . . . . . 17 
 
 Meetings, mayor presiding officer at, . . .16 
 
 warning, time and place of, . . . 21 
 
 validity of, . .20 
 
 city, may lay taxes, ... 20 
 
 to lay a tax when/ . . . 27
 
 CHARTER INDEX. 117 
 
 Meetings, special city, to approve or disapprove of .issue of 
 
 bonds, ..... 24 
 
 to approve estimates, how called, . . 26 
 
 Militia, mayor may call out, when, ... 17 
 serving under call of mayor, and refusing, pay and 
 
 penalty, ...... 18 
 
 Misdemeanors, acts constituting, and where prosecuted. 23 
 
 N 
 
 Notices, to non-residents ordered to lay walks, etc., . -jo 
 
 of hearing on street layout, ... 32 
 
 Nuisance, orders and ordinances relative to, common coun- 
 cil to make, . . . .20 
 
 O 
 
 Oaths, of city officers, form, and administration, 16, 33, 40 
 
 Officers elected at city election, and term of office of, 12, 13 
 
 form of oath of, and by whom administered, . 16 
 
 removal of, powers of council relative to, . . 23 
 
 salaried, not to receive fees and costs in police court, 47, 49 
 prosecuting, fees of, ... 47 
 
 what authorized to arrest without previous complaint, 
 
 and when, . . . . .49 
 
 Orders of auditor, when to be drawn, . . . 19, 55 
 
 Ordinances and orders, subject relative to which common 
 
 council may make, ... 20 to 24, 43 
 
 form of, and complaint, for violation of, 5 6, 57 
 
 publication of, and certificate of, . . 18 
 
 submission of, to mayor for approval, . 25 
 
 disapproved by mayor, how passed, . 25 
 
 submitted to city meeting when, and notice of, 25, 26 
 violations, penalty, how recovered, . 23 
 
 P 
 
 Panther swamp canal, . . . . .72 
 
 Papers, loose, see nuisance. 
 
 Peddling, and auctions, power of common council relative to, 23
 
 118 CHARTER INDEX. 
 
 Penalties, fines, and forfeitures, recoverable how, and form 
 
 of action for, . . . 23, 27. 50, 58 
 
 not to exceed fifty dollars, when, . . 23 
 
 for violation of orders and ordinances, common 
 
 council to prescribe, . . . 23 
 
 Permits for building, see building. 
 
 Police, number, election, and term of office, . . 53 
 
 officers, appointment of, . . . 52 
 
 government, and powers, . . . 52, 53 
 
 authority, local limits of, . v 49 
 
 removal or suspension of, . . .52 
 
 vacancies in, how filled, . . . 54 
 
 to convey criminals to place of confinement, . 48 
 
 suspension for cause, . . . 54 
 
 to be divided equally in politics, . ' . 52 
 
 commissioners, powers of council relative to the ap- 
 pointing of, . . 22 
 board of, number, appointment and 
 
 term of office, . . 52, 56 
 
 powers and duties, . . 52, 53 
 
 to be divided politically, . . 56 
 
 vacancies in, how filled, . 55, 56 
 
 removals of, for cause, . . 56 
 
 powers over police force, . 52, 53 
 
 to appoint clerk, . . .52 
 
 hearings before, . . 53 
 
 to notify city clerk of removals, etc., 52 
 powers to purchase and make repairs, 55 
 to receive no pay, . . -55 
 
 expenses of, how paid, . . 55 
 
 power to sell with consent of council, 55 
 not to exceed appropriations, 55 
 
 to be sworn, . 55 
 
 compulsory attendance of witnesses 
 
 before, . 53 
 
 process of subpoena how served on wit- 
 nesses before, , , 53
 
 CHARTER INDEX. 119 
 
 Police commissioners, attendance of witnesses before, how 
 
 compelled by, . . -53 
 
 clerk of, may 'subpoena witnesses, . 53 
 
 personally liable, when, . . 55 
 
 fees of witnesses summoned before, . 53 
 
 court, jurisdiction, powers and authority of, 44, 45, 46, 50 
 
 room, and accommodations for, . . 46 
 
 when to be open, ... .46 
 
 complaints to, in criminal matters, by whom 
 
 made, . . . . 46 
 
 form of complaint, . . . -57 
 
 adjournment of trial, bail, and bond in, . 47 
 
 service of process in, and fees, . 48, 49 
 
 suspension of judgment in, . . 49, 50 
 
 taxable fees and costs in, and when to be de- 
 manded, . . . . .47 
 fines and costs before and after commitment by, 47 
 reduction or disallowance of fees by, . . 50 
 fees of prosecuting officer in, . . 47 
 justice acting as judge in, and fees, . . 44 
 may commit to reform school, . . 48 
 may require sureties of the peace, when, . 50 
 misdemeanors prosecuted in, . . 23 
 offenses for which arrests may be made, and judg- 
 ment rendered in without previous complaint, 49 
 appeals from, bond, and binding over, . 45 
 judge of, powers, duties, and salary, . 40, 42 
 not disqualified by residence, and lia- 
 bility to taxation, . . .45 
 substitute for, who, and when, . 44 
 clerk of, powers, duties, salary and bond, 45, 46 
 record of, open to public inspection, 45 
 to notify city attorney of forfeiture of 
 
 bonds, . . . .48 
 
 to receive fees, penalties, and costs, 
 and render monthly account of to 
 treasurer, , , .46, 47
 
 120 CHARTER INDEX. 
 
 Police court, clerk of, to designate justice to act as substitute 
 
 police judge, when, . . 44 
 
 to record request for substitute judge, 44 
 
 to pay costs, when and how, . 47 
 
 limit of time of paying costs, . 47 
 
 fire, see fire department. 
 
 Polls, opening and closing of at annual elections, . 14 
 
 President, power of council relative to compensation of, . 23 
 
 Printing, power of council in relation to providing for, . 22 
 
 Privies, power of common council relative to, . 20 
 Property, real and personal, powers of council in relation 
 
 thereto, . . . . . 22 
 
 Prosecuting attorney, powers of council relative to election of, 22 
 and assistant attorney, complaints by, to 
 
 police court in criminal cases, . 46 
 appointment of, powers and duties, 41 
 in case of absence or inability to act, as- 
 sistant attorney to prosecute, . 41 
 may also be elected corporation counsel, 41 
 when to designate justice to act as police 
 
 judge, 44 
 
 fees of assistant attorney, when acting as, 41 
 qualification of, . . .41 
 Public conveyances, public carriages, etc., powers of com- 
 mon council relative to, . .22 
 assemblages and celebrations, . . .21 
 
 R 
 
 Real estate, when council can convey, . . .22 
 
 Records of city clerk and assistant, validity of, . 18 
 
 clerk of police court, open to public inspection, 45, 46 
 
 Reform school, police court may commit to, . . 48 
 
 Registrars of town, duties and compensation, . 13, 14, 15 
 
 refusing, or neglecting duties, penalty, . 15, 16 
 
 to make voting lists, . . . 13, 14 
 
 to choose presiding officers, . . .14 
 
 to check lists, . . . . 14
 
 CHARTER INDEX. 191 
 
 Registry lists, how made, and penalty for altering, 13, 14, 15 
 
 when, and to whom delivered, . , 14 
 
 list, what used at adjourned annual election, . 12 
 
 Removal from office, powers of council relative to, . 23, 56 
 
 ward, offices of ward officers vacated thereby, 12 
 
 Reports, of mayor, . . . . .17 
 
 committee on damages and benefits in taking streams, 28 
 
 sewer commissioners, . . . .51 
 
 treasurer, ..... 18 
 
 water commissioners, . . . .64 
 
 Riots, mayor to suppress, . . . . .15 
 
 powers of council relative to, . 22 
 
 Salaries, of city officers and powers of council relative to, 23 
 of aldermen and councilmen, restrictions as to, 23 
 Scales, see weights and measures. 
 Schools, see health. 
 Seal of city, ...... 23 
 
 Sealer of weights and measures, see weights and measures. 
 
 Sewers and drains, power of common council relative to, 20, 27 
 
 construction without permission, penalty, . . 27 
 
 defraying cost and expense of, . . . 34, 35 
 
 assessments for, a lien, how and when collectible, 27, 37 
 
 lateral and connecting, assessments for, and amount, 36 
 
 Sewer assessments, how made, .... 34, 35 
 
 proceedings in making, . 34, 35, 36 
 
 limit of, .... 36 
 
 collectible only on completion of sewer, 37 
 commissioners, number, how appointed, and term of 
 
 office, 51, 56 
 
 vacancies in, how filled, . . 51 
 
 power and duties, . 51, 52, 81 to 85 
 
 trustee of sewer fund bonds, . 51, 81 to 85 
 to keep record of their official proceed- 
 ing*, .... 51
 
 122 CHARTER INDEX. 
 
 Sewer commissioners, annual report of, . . .51 
 
 to be under direction of common council, 5 2 
 
 fund bonds, first series, . . . 81, 82 
 
 second series, . . . 82, 83 
 
 third series, . . . 83, 84 
 
 fourth series, . . . 84, 85 
 
 fifth series, . . . . 91 
 
 sixth series, ... 97 
 
 Sheriff, city, election, and term of office, . . .11 
 
 authority, local limits of, ... 49 
 
 powers, liabilities, and bond of, . . 19, 20 
 
 to attend upon city court, when, . . 19 
 
 to summon jury, .... 42, 43 
 
 to convey criminals to place of confinement, . 48 
 
 service of process in police court by, fees of, . 48 
 
 county and deputy, may serve criminal process, and 
 
 convey criminals to place of confinement, 48, 49 
 
 Shuttle Meadow lake, powers of council over, . . 24 
 
 jurisdiction of police at, . 45, 49 
 
 Sidewalks and gutters, powers of common council relative to, 30, 31 
 making, notice of, and limiting time of, . 29, 30, 31 
 neglecting order of common council relative to, 
 
 penalty, 30 
 
 changing grade of and relaying, when at expense 
 
 of city, 30 
 
 when to apportion expense of, . . 30, 31 
 
 form of order apportioning expense of, . 57 
 
 to make curb, flag, or pave, . . 56 
 
 snow and ice on, . . . .24 
 
 Signs across sidewalks, .... 23 
 
 Sinking fund for paying cost of waterworks, authorized, 66 
 Steam boilers, use and erection of. powers of common coun- 
 cil relative to, . . . .20 
 
 Streams, when common council may take, . . 28 
 
 damages and benefits from taking, . . 28, 29 
 
 assessments, how collected, . . 28 
 
 benefits not to exceed cost, . . 29
 
 CHARTER INDEX. 138 
 
 Street, lay-out of, notice required, and hearing relative to, 32 
 not opened except by order of common council, . 31 
 snow and ice on, powers of -council, . . 21 
 
 naming and numbering, . . . .21 
 
 processions in, . . . . 21 
 
 lighting of, powers of council, . . . 22 
 
 excavations in, . . . . 22 
 
 laying out and paving, powers and duties of board of 
 
 street commissioners, . . . 34, 35 
 
 committee on lay-out of, . ' . 32, 33 
 
 committee, chairman, salary, . . . 102 
 
 portion of town highway tax for, by whom determined, 32 
 town not obligated to make, in city, . 32 
 
 bonds, city authorized to issue, see special acts of 
 
 Conn. 1895, pp. 396-7. 
 cars, powers of council relative to speed of and 
 
 fenders on, . . . . .23 
 
 assessments, benefits not to exceed damages and cost, 35 
 damages, how paid, . . . .36 
 
 commissioner, powers of common council relative 
 
 to appointing, . . 31 
 
 election, term of office, . . 31 
 
 duties and compensation, . 31 
 
 commissioners, board of, appointment and term of 
 
 office, . 33 
 
 not to be members of common 
 
 council, . 33 
 
 duties, . 33, 34, 35 
 
 oath, and certificate of appointment, 33 
 vacancy in, and removal of members, 33,34 
 to be divided equally politically, 33 
 
 when disqualified. - . .34 
 
 compensation, ... 34 
 
 notice of hearing, . . .34, 35 
 
 to report cost of improvements, 35 
 
 proceedings in assessment of dama- 
 ges and benefits by, . 33, 34, 35, 36 
 report of, disposal of by council, 35
 
 184 CHARTER INDEX. 
 
 Street commissioners, power of council relative \o Ap- 
 pointing, . . . .22 
 appeals from and to whom, . 38, 39 
 reference of appeals to committee, 
 
 when, and powers of, . . 38 
 
 powers of council relative to appeals, 
 
 and return of papers, . 39 
 
 authority of common council over, 21, 31 
 Surveys, descriptive, and estimate of cost of improvement 
 
 by taking stream, .... 28 
 
 included in report of committee laying out streets 
 
 and building lines, . . . -33 
 
 Surveyor, city, power of common council relative to ap- 
 pointing, . . . . . 22 
 
 Subways, bonds, etc., . . . . 87, 99 
 
 Tax warrants, by whom issued, . . . 19 
 
 Taxation, mode of, . . . . . 22 
 
 Taxes, laying and collecting, . '. . 19, 20, 27 
 
 town highway, portion for city highways, by whom 
 
 determined, . . .32 
 
 to be paid into city treasury, . 32 
 
 for expenses of water-works, how laid and collected, 66 
 
 a lien, and how forclosed, . '. 66, 67 
 
 to be laid at meeting making appropriation, . 27 
 
 Treasurer, city, election, term of office, and bond of, n, 19 
 powers and duties, . . . . 18, 19 
 report of, when and how made, audited, re- 
 corded, and published, . . ^g 
 salary of and power of common council relative to, 23 
 fee in city court, payable to, . . 42 
 fines, penalties, costs, etc., received by clerk of 
 
 police court, payable to, . . 46 
 moneys received by water commissioners pay- 
 able to, 66
 
 CHARTER INDEX. 125 
 
 Treasurer, receipts of city attorney from forfeited bonds 
 
 payable to, .... 48 
 
 to pay all orders of auditor, . . .19 
 
 to keep on file annual account of clerk of police 
 
 court, ..... 46 
 
 to countersign water fund bonds, . . 71 
 
 to have powers of town treasurers, . . 18 
 
 county, assessment of compensation or damages, 
 
 deposited with .... 65 
 
 Treasury, city, amount agreed upon for damages in taking 
 
 stream deposited in, when, . . .28 
 
 amounts assessed for damages deposited in, 
 
 when, ..... 29, 36 
 penalties for violating orders and ordinances, 
 
 for use of, . . . . .23 
 
 taxable fees of salaried officers, for use of, 49 
 
 Trespassing, powers of council in relation to, . . 2* 
 
 u 
 
 Unwholesome food, powers of council relative to, 21 
 
 Vacancies in office, when, how, and by whom filled. 
 
 . 8, 12, 13, 18, 20, 22, 28, 29 
 Vehicles, see also public conveyance. 
 
 powers of council relative to regulation of, . 23 
 
 Vetoed measures, how passed, . . . .25 
 
 Voters, in city and ward meetings, qualifications, . n 
 
 wilful false swearing of, penalty, . . . 14 
 
 at special elections to fill vacancies, . . 13 
 
 change of residence, . . . .11 
 
 challenged, . . . . . 14 
 
 not on list, ...... 15 
 
 Votes, receiving, counting, declaring, and returning to city 
 
 clerk, . . 14, 15 
 
 recording, and publishing, . . . .15
 
 126 CHARTER INDEX. 
 
 Vote, tie, proceedings in case of, . . . 12 
 
 of city and common council, record of, by whom 
 
 kept, ...... 18 
 
 of common council submitted to mayor for approval, 25 
 disapproved by mayor, how passed, 25 
 
 Voting lists, voters' names entered on when, . . 13, 14 
 
 mode of, illegal, and allowing such, . 14, 15 
 
 lists to be kept by city clerk, . . . 14 
 
 places, when to open and close, . . .14 
 
 W 
 
 Walks, see sidewalks. 
 
 Walls, see buildings, fire district. 
 
 Wards, number and boundaries, . . . 9, 10 
 
 officers of, to be residents of, . . .9 
 
 meetings, voters at, . . . n 
 
 presiding officer, powers and duties, 14, 15 
 
 ballot boxes, number, and how provided, . 14, 15 
 
 polls in, opening and closing of, . .14 
 
 registry list of electors in, how made, . . 13, 14 
 
 voting places in, and .notice of, . . .14 
 
 Warrants, against negligent collector, issued by mayor, 19 
 
 arrest and trial without, when lawful, . . 49 
 
 assessment, to collector, issued by mayor, . 31, 37 
 
 distress, when mayor may issue, . 25, 31 
 
 for execution, when granted by police court, 23, 45 
 
 jury, to sheriff, how issued, . . .43 
 
 on account of offenses within jurisdiction of police 
 
 court, 45 
 
 tax, for collector, mayor or aldermen to sign, . 19 
 Water commissioners, powers of common council relative 
 
 to appointing, . . 22 
 board of, number, election, and term 
 
 of office, . 50, 64 
 powers and duties, . 50, 64, 66 
 
 annual report of, . . 64 
 
 bonds and compensation of, . 67 
 
 majority, a quorum, , , 65
 
 CHARTER INDEX. 127 
 
 Water commissioners, vacancies in, how filled, .. . 65 
 
 orders of, what designated in, . 67 
 
 trustees of water bonds, . 66, 70, 72 
 for what to draw orders on treasurer, 64 
 to pay over to treasurer all moneys 
 
 received, . . .66 
 
 to repair and pay for damages caused 
 
 by laying pipes, . . 64 
 
 to keep record of their official pro- 
 ceedings, and books of account, 64 
 price and distribution of, water commissioners to 
 
 regulate, ..... 64 
 
 terms of supplying localities outside city limits, . 69 
 
 willful corrupting of, in reservoir, etc., how punished, 67 
 fund bonds, of borough, authority to issue, interest, 
 
 and amount, . . . .65 
 
 second series, authority to issue, interest, 
 
 and amount, 69 
 
 obligatory on city, 51 
 
 issue by city authorized, and 
 
 amount, - 70 
 
 third series, authority to issue, interest, 
 
 and amount, - 71 
 
 fourth series, 72 
 
 fifth series, 73, 74 
 
 sixth series, 74, 75, 76 
 
 seventh series, 76 
 
 eighth series, 92 
 
 ninth series, 101 
 
 pipes, authority to extend to town limits, 69 
 
 rents, collected by and paid over to whom, 64 
 
 avails of, how applied, - 66 
 
 deficiency of, supplied by tax, 66 
 
 excess of, how applied, - 66 
 
 a lien, and may be forclosed, 66, 67 
 
 supply, additional main, 69 
 
 canal and aqueduct, - 72, 73
 
 128 CHARTER INDEX. 
 
 Water-works, authority to take lands, etc., for, 63, 73 
 
 water supply for, and source, 63 
 powers of common council relative to, 21, 22, 24, 50 
 cost and expense of, how defrayed, 65, 66, 70, 71, 72 
 assessment of compensation or damages on 
 
 account of, how made, 65 
 claims on account of, water commissioners to 
 
 audit, and draw orders for, 64 
 
 injuring any portion of, how punished, 67 
 ordinances in relation thereto, penalty for 
 
 violations of, 24, 25 
 
 violation of to be a misdemeanor, 24 
 
 jurisdiction of police court over, 45, 49 
 
 Weighers, public, powers of common council relative to, 22 
 
 West canal, expense of, how provided for, 75 
 
 Workhouse, and jails, arrangements in reference to, 48 
 
 persons conveyed to, how, 48 
 
 Yeas and nays, see rules.
 
 ORDINANCES 
 
 AND 
 
 STANDING RULES 
 
 OP THE 
 
 COMMON COUNCIL
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 ACCOUNTS AND CLAIMS. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New 
 Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Contracting Accounts. No account shall be con- 
 tracted in behalf of said city, or, if contracted, shall be of any 
 binding force, unless the person so contracting be duly authorized 
 by the charter of the city or some order or ordinance of the Com- 
 mon Council, or by the committee of supplies thereof ; provided, 
 however, that said committee of supplies shall not make or con- 
 tract, or consent to the making or contracting of any account to 
 an amount exceeding ten dollars, without special authority granted 
 it by a vote of said Common Council. 
 
 SEC. 2. Bills to be Itemized. All bills or claims against the 
 city shall, where the nature of the case admits of it, contain the 
 items, respective dates, and name of contracting party, and shall 
 not otherwise be approved or paid. 
 
 SEC. 3. Judgments. Any claim against the city by reason of 
 the final judgment of a court or judge, shall be certified by the 
 Corporation Counsel to be correct before being presented to the 
 committee on claims. 
 
 SEC. 4. Auditor's Orders. No order shall be drawn by the 
 Auditor upon the Treasurer without a previous vote of the Com- 
 mon Council authorizing the same, except for the pay rolls and 
 the regular salaries of city officers which shall be duly approved by 
 the Mayor. The only evidence of such authority shall be a certi- 
 fied copy of the vote of said Common Council, which it shall be 
 the duty of the City Clerk to deliver forthwith to the Auditor. All 
 orders so drawn shall specify the nature of the claims for which 
 they are respectively drawn.
 
 4 CHAPTER I. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 5. Payments from the Treasury. No money shall be paid 
 from the City Treasury except upon the written order of the Audi- 
 tor specifying the nature of the claim, and any payment otherwise 
 made shall not be binding upon said city ; provided, however, 
 that notes of said city, payable at bank, or interest on city notes, 
 scrip, or certificates of debt, may be paid by the City Treasurer. 
 
 SEC. 6. Treasurer's Receipts. The Treasurer shall pay all or- 
 ders so drawn in the order in which they shall have been presented. 
 
 Whenever any money shall be paid into the Treasury of said 
 City, the Treasurer shall execute duplicate receipts thereof, one 
 of which shall be delivered to the party paying said money, and 
 the other deposited immediately with the City Clerk. 
 
 SEC. 7. Claims for Damages Certified by City Clerk. When 
 any assessment of damages against the city, for any public im- 
 provement, is due and payable to any person or persons, a bill for 
 the amount of damages assessed to each in excess of the benefits 
 assessed to the same person for the public improvements, shall be 
 by said person presented to the City Clerk, and having been, by 
 the City Clerk, compared with the order of assessment and certi- 
 fied to be correct, shall be passed in the same manner as other 
 bills. In case any person in whose favor such bill for damages is 
 passed, shall refuse to accept the order drawn therefor, the Audi- 
 tor shall forward such order to the Treasurer, who shall thereafter 
 pay the same on demand of the person in whose favor it was 
 drawn. 
 
 SEC. 8. Committee on Claims ; Street Bills. A committee on 
 claims shall annually be appointed from among the members of 
 the Common Council, to whom all bills, accounts and claims 
 against the city, except such claims as are otherwise provided for 
 in the ordinances, shall be referred, and who shall carefully and 
 faithfully examine such bills, accounts and claims, and, when 
 necessary, examine all persons contracting or having knowledge of 
 the same, shall note thereon their approval or disapproval, and 
 report the same to the Common Council, with all informalities or
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 ACCOUNTS AND CLAIMS. 
 
 errors discovered therein. Said Council shall not approve nor 
 order the payment of any such bill, account or claim until said 
 committee shall have reported thereon, unless by a unanimous vote 
 of said Council, such reference shall be dispensed with in any par- 
 ticular case. Said committee however, shall not approve the bills 
 of the Street Commissioner unless they have previously been 
 approved by the Street Committee. 
 
 SEC. 9. When Payment of Claim Withheld. In any case any per- 
 son to whom a claim is due and payable, shall be indebted to the 
 city, the City Clerk shall withhold the order for the payment of 
 such claim until such indebtedness is satisfied. 
 
 SEC. 10. Claims for Damages. Whenever any claim for dam- 
 age to person or property shall be presented against said city, by 
 bill, petition to the court of Common Council, or otherwise, 
 except in cases of assessments provided for in the Charter or Ordi- 
 nances of said city, the Court of Common Council shall appoint a 
 proper committee to inquire into and report the facts or refer the 
 same to the Committee on Claims, provided that no such claim 
 shall be so referred, or considered, unless it shall appear by the 
 certificate of the City Clerk, indorsed upon the paper or petition 
 whereby the same is presented to the court of Common Council, 
 that due notice of said claim was reasonably given to him as re- 
 quired by the statute laws of this State in such cases. 
 
 Upon receipt of any such notice the City Clerk shall forthwith 
 transmit the same to the Corporation Counsel, who shall at once 
 proceed to examine into such claim and investigate all the circum- 
 stances and any legal question arising thereon ; keeping a written 
 record or memorandum of the facts and results thus ascer- 
 tained ; and when said claim is considered by the committee to 
 which it may be referred the Corporation Counsel shall be present 
 with said record, or memorandum. 
 
 Such committee shall notify any person or corporation who may 
 be liable in damages on account of such claim to appear and be
 
 6 CHAPTER I. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 heard in reference to the same, and to relieve said city from any 
 liability therefor. 
 
 Upon receipt of a notice of claim for damages arising from any 
 alleged defect in any street or sidewalk, the City Clerk shall fur- 
 nish the Corporation Counsel with a copy thereof, and said Cor- 
 poration Counsel shall immediately cause the City Engineer to 
 make a map of the place where such claimed defect existed, unless, 
 in the opinion of the Corporation Counsel, such map is unnec- 
 essary, and shall direct some . officer or employe of the street 
 department to investigate such claim, ascertain the facts and make 
 a written report to the Corporation Counsel of said facts and the 
 evidence relating thereto, giving the names and residences of wit- 
 nesses. Said report shall be made within ten days after such 
 officer or employe has been directed to make such investigation, 
 and it shall be his duty to make such further investigation and 
 report as the Corporation Counsel shall direct. 
 
 No claim for damages shall be allowed and paid by said city, 
 unless the Corporation Counsel is clearly of the opinion that the 
 city is legally liable to pay the amount so allowed. 
 
 SEC. ii. Auditor's Classification Book. The Auditor shall keep 
 a book called the Classification Book, suitably ruled in columns, 
 for the numbers of all claims presented against the city, the names 
 of the several claimants, the designation of the departments or 
 classes of claims to which they belong, and money columns for the 
 amount allowed by the Committee on Claims on each claim. 
 
 SEC. 12. Auditors to Classify Claims. The Auditor shall num- 
 ber every claim, and enter in the Classification Book the number, 
 the name of the claimant, the class or department to which it be- 
 longs, and set down in each department the amount of the claim 
 which belongs to that department. 
 
 SEC. 13. Auditor to Report Monthly. The Auditor shall 
 monthly lay before the Committee on Finance, an abstract of his 
 Classification Book, showing the aggregate of bills presented against 
 each department and paid by him, and the balance of the appro- 
 priation to each department unexpended.
 
 CHAPTER I. 7 
 
 ACCOUNTS AND CLAIMS. 
 
 SEC. 14. When Bills Exceed Appropriation. If the aggregate 
 of bills coming to the hands of the Auditor duly approved during 
 any month shall exceed the unexpended balance of the appropria- 
 tion to which they belong, the Auditor shall report the facts to the 
 Committee on Finance and the Court of Common Council at their 
 regular sessions. 
 
 SEC. 15. Finance Committee to Instruct Auditor. In case the 
 Committee on Finance shall find that there is not sufficient money 
 in the hands of the Treasurer to pay all the bills duly allowed, 
 they shall instruct the Auditor in what order the same shall be 
 paid by order on the Treasurer, giving preference to the regular 
 officers and employes of the City, and said Auditor shall obey their 
 instructions. 
 
 SEC. 1 6. Claims Filed. All bills presented to the Committee 
 on Claims shall be carefully filed and preserved by the City Clerk 
 in his office. 
 
 SEC. 17. Auditor to Keep Books. The Auditor, on drawing 
 any order, shall charge the amount of the same to the proper ac- 
 count or accounts, in books kept by him for that purpose. 
 
 SEC. 1 8. Treasurer to Report. The Treasurer shall report to 
 the Committee on Finance on the first of each month the amount 
 of money belonging to the City in his hands. 
 
 SEC. 19. City Clerk to Keep Record. It shall be the duty of the 
 City Clerk to keep a record, in books provided specially for that 
 purpose, of all accounts due said city from any and every source, 
 excepting taxes, assessments, water rents and fines and penalties 
 imposed by the Police and City Courts ; and to obtain from the 
 Mayor, Corporation Counsel, Street Commissioner, Chief of Po- 
 lice, and the chairman of the various committees, and all other 
 officers of said city, all necessary information in relation to ac- 
 counts due the city that may come to their knowledge ; and it shall 
 be the duty of the herein named officers on application to give the 
 Clerk said necessary information.
 
 8 CHAPTER II. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 20. Bills to be Collected. It shall be the duty of the City 
 Clerk, unless otherwise directed by the Common Council, to put 
 all of said bills due the city in the hands of the Chief of Police for 
 collection. 
 
 SEC. 21. Duties of Auditor. It shall be the duty of the Audi- 
 tor to audit annually the accounts of every city officer, or other 
 person who receives funds on account of said city, except the 
 accounts of the Treasurer. 
 
 SEC. 22. Sinking Fund Committee. The Mayor, President 
 pro tempore of the Common Council and Treasurer of said city, 
 and their successors, shall ex officio be a committee to be known as 
 the Sinking Fund Committee, whose duty it shall be to receive, 
 manage and invest any funds that are now, or may hereafter be, 
 appropriated to any sinking fund for the extinguishment of any 
 indebtedness or liability of said city, and said committee shall re- 
 port annually, to the Council, at its first meeting in April, the 
 condition of all such sinking funds, and the investment thereof. 
 
 SEC. 23. Sinking Fund Money. The funds belonging to any 
 sinking fund of said city shall not be used for any other purpose, 
 except that for which said funds were particularly set apart and 
 appropriated. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 AMUSEMENTS. 
 
 Be it ordained by tne Common Council of the City of New 
 Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Licenses Required. Every person who shall, with- 
 out obtaining a license from the Common Council, or the Com- 
 mittee appointed by said Council for that purpose, make or 
 knowingly aid or assist in, making a public display of any sport, 
 amusement, performance, concert, opera, or other public exhibi-
 
 CHAPTER II. 9 
 
 AMUSEMENTS. 
 
 tion, within the limits of said city, shall forfeit and pay a penalty 
 of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars for each 
 offence, and each separate exhibition shall be deemed a separate 
 offence within the meaning of this ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 2. Licenses to be Issued. The Committee on Licenses of 
 the Common Council shall have power, unless otherwise directed 
 by said Council, to grant written licenses, to be issued as provided 
 in Section 6 of this ordinance, to persons applying for the same, 
 for public amusement, concert, opera, or other performance, as 
 they the committee, shall consider proper to be licensed, and for 
 such time as they shall deem fit, which license may, at any time, 
 be revoked by the said committee or by the Common Council. 
 
 SEC. 3. Payment of Fee. Such person applying as aforesaid 
 shall pay to the clerk of said committee for the use of said city, 
 such license fee as the Council shall designate. 
 
 SEC. 4. Unlicensed Exhibitions ; Penalty. No corporation or 
 person, being the owner, proprietor, agent, or janitor of any pub- 
 lic hall in said city, shall permit such hall to be used for the 
 purpose of giving any concert, opera, play, or other public amuse- 
 ment or exhibition, without having first received from the proprie- 
 tor or agent of such concert, opera, play, or other amusement as 
 aforesaid, a license, in writing, from the Committee on Licenses, 
 and any person who shall, by so doing, offend against this ordi- 
 nance, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars for 
 each offence. 
 
 SEC. 5. What Deemed a Public Hall. Every place in said city 
 wherein any public amusement, concert, opera, play, or other pub- 
 lic exhibition shall be held, shall be deemed a public hall, within 
 the meaning of this ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 6. Clerk of Committee ; Duties. The City Clerk shall be 
 clerk of said committee on licenses, and under their direction shall 
 issue all licenses granted by said committee, and shall pay over all 
 moneys received therefor to the City Treasurer as often as once
 
 10 CHAPTER III. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 a month, and shall keep a record of all licenses so issued, together 
 with the date thereof, the name of the licensee to whom given, the 
 amount of money received therefor, and the name or style of the 
 exhibition licensed, which date, price and name of licensee and 
 exhibition shall also appear on the face of the license ; and it shall 
 be the duty of the owner, proprietor, agent or janitor receiving any 
 such license to return the same to the clerk of said committee as 
 often as once in three months, to be by him examined and lodged 
 on file, together with such record in the office of the City Clerk, 
 but said clerk shall not be entitled to receive from the city any 
 extra compensation for service rendered to said committee. 
 
 SEC. 7. Destruction of Play Bills ; Penalty. No person shall 
 destroy, remove, tear, or otherwise deface any bill, posted in such 
 places as may be permitted, descriptive of any performance to be 
 exhibited, duly licensed as aforesaid. 
 
 Every person violating any provision of this section, shall forfeit 
 and pay a penalty of two dollars for every such offense. 
 
 SEC. 8. Violations Reported. All violations of this ordinance 
 shall be forthwith reported to the Prosecuting Attorney for prose- 
 cution. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 ANIMALS. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Britain : 
 SECTION i. Cattle, etc., Not to Go at Large ; Penalty. No 
 owner or person having the charge of cattle, horses, sheep, goats 
 or swine shall suffer or permit the same to go or be at large in any 
 of the streets or squares of said city, or shall suffer or permit the 
 same to be upon any of the streets or public squares of said city 
 for the purpose of being pastured there. 
 
 Any person offending against any of the provisions of Section i 
 of this ordinance shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than 
 five dollars nor more than twenty dollars for each offence.
 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 11 
 
 CITY SURVEYOR. 
 
 CHAPTER IY. 
 
 CITY SURVEYOR. 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Britain: 
 
 SECTION i. How and When Elected. There shall be an officer 
 of said city of New Britain to be called the City Surveyor, and 
 within thirty days after the adoption of this ordinance the Com- 
 mon Council shall proceed to elect such officer who shall hold 
 office until the first day of May, 1897, and until his successor has 
 been duly elected and qualified. And annually hereafter in the 
 month of April, and after the third Tuesday of said month the 
 Common Council shall elect a City Surveyor, who shall hold office 
 for one year from and after the first day of May following, and 
 until his successor is elected and qualified. 
 
 Should a vacancy in said office occur, the Common Council 
 shall proceed to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term, as soon as 
 may be. 
 
 SEC. 2. Custody of Maps, etc; Designation of Street Lints. The 
 City Surveyor shall have the custody of all the maps of said city, 
 exceptirg only those pertaining exclusively to the Water and 
 Sewer Departments ; and shall see that all maps and other records 
 in his charge are kept in a safe or vault ; shall make and prepare 
 all surveys, maps, profiles, estimates, and specifications required 
 by the Mayor, Common Council, the Street Commissioner, Street 
 Committee, and the Boards of Water, Sewer, Subway and Street 
 Commissioners, as the needs of the several departments of the city 
 may require. 
 
 And it shall also be his duty to designate the street line for any 
 property owner, who contemplates building a fence on the line of 
 any street which has been regularly laid out by the city. 
 
 SEC. 3. Field Book. The City Surveyor shall keep an accurate 
 and complete field book, which shall contain the notes or data of
 
 18 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 all grades, levels, measurements, surveys, etc., of all streets, 
 sewers, or other public work in his department ordered by the 
 Common Council or other proper authority during any one year. 
 At the end of each year said field book shall be deposited with the 
 City Clerk and shall be the property of the city. 
 
 SEC. 4. Materials and Stationery. All materials for maps, 
 drawings, etc., all books and stationery required by the City Sur- 
 veyor in the performance of the duties of his office, shall be fur- 
 nished him at the expense of the city in accordance with the ordi- 
 nance regulating supplies. 
 
 SEC. 5. Annual Report. The City Surveyor shall annually, on 
 or before the loth day of April in each year, make report to the 
 Common Council, which report shall comprise a full statement of 
 all street improvements, sewers or other public work with such 
 details of each as may be necessary to properly exemplify the 
 transactions of his department. 
 
 SEC. 6. Salary. The salary of the City Surveyor shall be two 
 thousand dollars ($2.000.00) per annum, payable monthly, which 
 shall include payment of assistant, office rent and light. Said 
 salary shall be in full for all his expenses, and the services which 
 he may render to said city. 
 
 SEC. 7. Bond. The City Surveyor shall, before he shall enter 
 into his official duties, give bond with sufficient sureties in accord- 
 ance with Section 4, Chapter XVI II of the city ordinance, in the 
 sum of $5,000. And in case of refusal or neglect of said surveyor 
 to give such bond, his office shall.be deemed vacant.
 
 s CHAPTER V. 13 
 
 CONTRACTS. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 CONTRACTS. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Contracts; Nome Labor. Whenever the Street 
 Commissioner, or the Sewer or Water Commissioners, or any 
 other officer of said city, having charge of any public improve- 
 ments, shall judge it to be for the interest of the city, such Com- 
 missioner, Commissioners, or other officer in charge, may make 
 contracts for labor and materials for such public improvements, 
 and such contracts, when ratified by the Common Council, shall 
 be valid and binding on said city, and all contracts for such labor 
 and materials shall be in writing and executed in triplicate, of 
 which one shall be kept by the Commissioner, Commissioners, or 
 other officer aforesaid, one delivered to the City Clerk, and kept 
 on file, and one retained by the contractor ; and no such Com- 
 missioner, Commissioners, or other officer having charge of any 
 public improvements, shall have any interest, direct or indirect, in 
 any contract relating thereto ; nor shall such contract be executed, 
 unless good and satisfactoiy security for the faithful performance 
 of the same shall be given by the contractor and approved by said 
 Commissioner, Commissioners, or other officer in charge, and in 
 making such contracts home labor shall be given the preference. 
 
 SEC. 2. Advertising for Proposals. The said Commissioner, 
 Commissioners, other officer in charge as aforesaid, when not 
 otherwise specially authorized by the Common Council, shall ad- 
 vertise in one or more newspapers in said city for sealed proposals 
 for all such contracts, specifying the time and place, when and 
 where the same shall be received ; and such proposals, in order to 
 be received and acted upon, shall set forth a specified sum or price 
 to be paid for all such labor and materials, without condition, 
 limitation, or alteration, and shall be accompanied with a bond
 
 14 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 with satisfactory sureties, payable to the Mayor and his succes- 
 sors in office, conditioned for the faithful execution of the pro- 
 posal, if the same shall be accepted in behalf of the city. 
 
 SEC. 3. Assignment of Contract. No such contract shall be 
 assigned or transferred without the written assent of the Mayor, 
 and the officer or officers having charge of the public improvement 
 to which such contract relates. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 ELECTION OR APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS. 
 
 Be it ordained by. the Common Council of the City of New Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. When and How Chosen; Term of Office. All officers 
 chosen under the Charter by the Common Council, the times and 
 methods of whose election or appointment are not specially pro- 
 vided for by that instrument, shall be so chosen by the Common 
 Council annually during the month of April, and shall hold office 
 for the term of one year from the first day of May next succeeding 
 their election or appointment, and until their successors are chosen 
 and qualified. The person receiving a majority of the votes for 
 any office filled at the meeting at which any such election or ap- 
 pointment is made, shall be declared elected or appointed to the 
 office for which he receives such votes. Each and every officer so 
 chosen as aforesaid shall be an elector of said city. 
 
 SEC. 2. Vacancies. In case of a vacancy occurring in any 
 of such offices the same shall be filled for the unexpired term in 
 the manner above provided at any meeting of the Common Council 
 subsequent to the occurrence of such vacancy.
 
 CHAPTER VII. 15 
 
 ERECTION OF BUILDINGS. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 ERECTION OF BUILDINGS. 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Building Permits Required. No persons or corpo- 
 rations shall hereafter erect, add to, move from place to place, or 
 station any building in said city, deposit any building material in 
 any street, or assist in either of said acts without a license or per- 
 mit first issued therefor to the owner or person in charge of said 
 building, to be obtained in the following manner, viz : The 
 owner, proprietor or agent, proposing to do any such acts, shall 
 make written application, subscribed by him, to the city clerk for 
 such license or permit, and with such application shall state the 
 location, height, material, purpose of and contiguity to the other 
 buildings of the building for which such permit is required ; the 
 applicant shall also state the height and thickness of the outer 
 stone and brick walls and the material of which the roof or cover- 
 ing is made and the estimated time from which such license or 
 permit shall be granted, said application shall be referred by the 
 clerk to the committee on building and encroachments. 
 
 Said committee may, at any time, grant said permits, or, if they 
 deem it for the public good, or if any person objects to the grant- 
 ing of said permits, shall retain any application until it can be 
 acted upon by the Common Council, and a record of all such per- 
 mits, giving the particulars above stated, shall be kept in a book 
 provided for that purpose. 
 
 SEC. 2. Restrictions; Fire District; Electric Wiring. No per- 
 son, persons, or corporations shall erect, or add to any building 
 within the fire district, unless the outer walls of the same be wholly 
 constructed of stone, brick, or other fire-proof material, and the 
 roof covered with incombustible material. 
 
 Said Fire District shall include the portion of the City described 
 as follows :
 
 FIRE DISTRICT.
 
 CHAPTER VII. 17 
 
 ERECTION OF BUILDINGS. 
 
 All within three hundred (300) feet outside a line from center of 
 street, commencing at the corner of Clark and Lee streets, to Win- 
 ter, Winter to Summer, Summer to East Main, East Main to Elm, 
 Elm to the tracks of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- 
 road, along tracks to a point on Pine Street extension, through 
 Pine to Maple, Maple to Pearl, Pearl to South Main along the 
 East side of the Park, South Main to Kensington, and within three 
 hundred (300) feet along Kensington to Webster, Webster to Arch, 
 through the center of Arch and within three hundred (300) feet of 
 Walnut to South High, South High to West Main across West 
 Main to center of High street, High to Lafayette to Beaver, 
 Beaver to a point on Beaver opposite the center of Lee street, 
 thence through the center of Lee street to place of beginning. 
 
 No person, persons or corporations shall cause electric wires to 
 be placed in any building in the city, without securing a permit 
 from the superintendent of the electrical department, who shall 
 inspect said building and issue his certificate that the said wires 
 are safely installed. 
 
 SEC. 3. Materials and Construction, of Walls. All buildings 
 hereafter erected within said Fire District, shall have all walls, 
 whether the same shall be outside of the party walls, constructed 
 of stone, brick or iron, properly bonded and solidly put together, 
 and all such walls shall be built to a line and carried up plumb 
 and straight, and the several .component parts of such building 
 shall be built and constructed as hereafter provided. 
 
 SEC. 4. Outside, Party Walls, etc. The outside and party walls 
 of all buildings hereafter erected or built, shall not be less than 
 eight (8) inches thick, and all such walls as exceed fifteen feet in 
 height (except party walls and the walls of two-story dwellings) 
 shall not be less than twelve (12) inches thick, and all such walls 
 as exceed forty feet in height (except party walls,) shall not be 
 less than sixteen (16) inches thick to the under side of the second 
 tier of beams, provided the under side of the said second tier of 
 beams be not less than twenty (20) feet from the level of the side-
 
 18 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 walk, such walls, except party walls, shall be sixteen (16) inches 
 thick to the under side of the third tier of beams above the said 
 level ; and every such wall shall be built with headers every sixth 
 course, except that the walls of dwellings over two stories high, 
 shall not be less than twelve (12) inches thick (except party walls 
 to the beams of the upper story. ) In all buildings hereafter 
 erected in said Fire District, situated on the street corner, other 
 than dwellings, bearing walls thereof (*hat is the wall on the street 
 upon which the beam rests) shall be four (4) inches thicker in all 
 cases than is otherwise provided for by this ordinance. 
 
 All buildings hereafter erected within said Fire District which 
 are intended for offices, tenements or small stores, shall be so con- 
 structed that they shall be fire proof, partition walls not to be 
 more than twenty-five feet apart, shall be built from cellar to roof, 
 the same as other party walls, except as hereinafter provided, all 
 air, light, or elevator shafts to be inclosed by walls of fire proof 
 material, all openings in such partition walls, from store to store 
 or tenement, shall have fire proof doors, which shall be closed 
 every night or at all times when such places are unoccupied. 
 AY hen buildings are built for two or more stores in which large 
 halls are to be made, the floor above the stores is to be of fire proof 
 construction, joists to be < f iron, spans between filled in with brick, 
 hollow brick or terra cotta, and the partitions above to be carried 
 on iron beams. All party walls of any buildings over fifteen (15) 
 feet high shall be built up and extended not less than eight (8) 
 inches above the roof and shall be coped with fire proof material. 
 All outside walls and chimneys of buildings hereafter erected, 
 shall not be less than twenty-two (22) courses of brick to each five 
 (5) feet in height of the same. 
 
 The foundation walls to any permanent building in said Fire 
 District, shall not be less than four (4) feet below the surface ex- 
 posed to frost, resting upon solid ground, piles, concrete or other 
 solid substance and shall be of good ledge-stone or other material, 
 equally as good as stone, laid in cement mortar. Foundation
 
 CHAPTER VII. 19 
 
 ERECTION OF BUILDINGS. 
 
 walls shall be not less than eighteen (18) inches thick for two 
 story buildings and twelve (12) inch upper walls, foundation walls 
 to increase in thickness four (4) inches per story or for each addi-. 
 tional four inches of wall that it carries. 
 
 SEC. 5. Faced Walls; Mortar ; Backings. All walls which are 
 faced with ashlar are to be anchored to the backing and must have 
 alternate headers and stretchers in each course, or alternate head- 
 ing and stretching course, the backing of brick to be not less than 
 eight (8) inches thick, and all eight inch backing shall be laid up 
 in cement or lime mortar, and shall not be built to a greater height 
 than prescribed for twelve inch brick walls. The mortar used for 
 all foundations, for all buildings, erected within the fire district, 
 shall be composed of not less than one part of cement to two and 
 one half parts of good sharp sand (Plainville preferred). All 
 heading courses shall be of good hard, perfect brick. 
 
 The backings in all walls, of whatever material they may be 
 composed, shall be of such thickness as to make the walls inde- 
 pendent of facing, conform as to thickness with the requirements of 
 the ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 6. Building Walls United. The front, rear, side, partition 
 and party walls of any building, hereafter to be erected, shall be 
 carried up together, and well united and bonded at the point of 
 contact. All stone used for facing of any building, except where 
 built with alternate headers and stretchers as hereinbefore set forth, 
 shall be strongly anchored with iron anchors in each stone of more 
 than twelve (12) inches in height when said stone^is not equal in 
 width of the base with height thereof, and all such anchors shall be 
 let into the stone at least one inch. The front, rear, side and party 
 walls shall be anchored at each tier of beams at intervals of not 
 more than six (6) feet apart, with good strong wrought iron an- 
 chors of not less than one-quarter of an inch by one and one-half 
 inch iron, well built into the side walls, and fastened to the side of 
 the beams by three nails made of wrought iron, at least one-quarter 
 of an inch in diameter.
 
 20 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 7. Chimneys, etc. All chimneys and all flues in any build- 
 ing hereafter erected, altered or repaired, without reference to the 
 purpose for which they may be used, shall have the joints struck 
 smooth on the inside, and no pargeting mortar shall be used on 
 the inside ; and all tiling which shall be used for chimneys shall be 
 enclosed with brick. All flues that are to be connected with fur- 
 naces, are to have fire clay tile linings commencing two (2) feet 
 below the first floor, and continuing the full height of the chimney. 
 
 No chimney shall be started, or built on any floor or beam, and 
 in no case where the breast of the chimney shall project more than 
 four (4) inches shall it be commenced in any wall, but shall be 
 started from the foundation. All hearths shall be supported by 
 arches of stone or brick, no chimney in buildings already erected, 
 or hereafter to be built, shall be cut off below, or in part and sup- 
 ported by wood, but shall be wholly supported by stone, brick, or 
 iron. 
 
 SEC. 8. Wood-work Separated from Chimneys, etc. In no build- 
 ing hereafter erected, whether the same be frame, or otherwise, 
 shall any timber, studding, furring or other wood be fastened to 
 the same or within two inches of the outside of any chimney or 
 other conveyance of fire, smoke, or heat. All wooden beams and 
 other timbers in the party wall of every building hereafter to be 
 erected or built of stone, brick, or iron, shall be separated from 
 the beam or timber entering in the opposite side of the wall, by at 
 least four inches of solid mason work. 
 
 SEC. 9. Roofs Built and Coveted The planking and sheathing 
 of the roof of every building hereafter erected and built, shall in 
 no case be extended across the party wall thereof, and every such 
 roof or any such building shall be covered with slate, tin, zinc, 
 copper, or iron, or other equally fire proof material. 
 
 SEC. 10. Raising of Building*. If any brick front or wooden 
 building already erected within said fire district shall require new 
 roofing, it shall and may be lawful for the owner or owners thereof, 
 to raise the same, for the purpose of making a flat roof thereon,
 
 CHAPTER VII. 21 
 
 ERECTION OP BUILDINGS. 
 
 provided that such new roof shall be covered with slate, tin, iron, 
 copper, zinc, or other fire proof materials, and provided also that 
 such building, when so raised, shall not at the highest point thereof 
 exceed the height of the peak of said building before the altera- 
 tion, provided that such alteration shall only be done under the 
 direction and permit of the Committee on Buildings and Encroach- 
 ments, and Inspector of Buildings, after approval of the Common 
 Council of said City. 
 
 SEC. n. Smoke Pipes; Wooden Buildings. No smoke pipe in 
 any building with wooden or combustible floors or ceilings shall 
 afterwards enter any flue, unless the said pipe shall be at least 
 twelve inches from either floor or ceilings, and in all cases where 
 smoke pipes pass through stud or wooden partitions of any kind, 
 whether the same be plastered or not, they shall be guarded by 
 either double collar of galvanized or cast iron, painted on both 
 sides, with at least one inch space, or holes for ventilation, or by 
 a single galvanized or cast iron collar, painted on both sides, sur- 
 rounded by a brick collar, of not less than eight inches in thick- 
 ness between the collars, their whole length, or by a soapstone, 
 terra cotta ring or tile, not less than two inches in thickness and 
 extending through the partition, or by a solid coating of plaster of 
 paris three inches from the pipe. 
 
 ' No wooden or frame building within said fire district which may 
 hereafter be damaged by fire or otherwise, shall be repaired or 
 rebuilt, nor shall any building be moved, or repaired, or added to 
 upon the exterior with wooden material unless permission so to do 
 be granted by two-thirds vote of the Common Council of said 
 City, after application to move, repair or rebuild, has been made 
 to the Committee on Building and Encroachments of said Com- 
 mon Council. All applications must be signed .by the Building 
 Inspector. 
 
 SEC. 12. To Obtain Building Permits. Before the erection, 
 construction or alteration of any building or part thereof, or shed, 
 extension or piazza., either within or without the fire district, or of
 
 22 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 any block, dwelling, factory, store, store house or building of any 
 description which are to be used for human occupation (in which 
 fire will be used or that will have, or be connected with, a plumb- 
 ing or drainage system) is commenced, the owner, architect, or 
 builder shall submit to the Inspector of Buildings a clear statement 
 in writing of the plans and specifications for the erection or altera- 
 tion thereof, together with the size and location of the land upon 
 which the structure referred to by said specifications is to be 
 erected or altered, and the distance of such proposed erection, 
 alteration or construction from the street line (a record of which 
 shall be kept by said Inspector of Buildings) and the erection, 
 construction or alteration of said building or part thereof, shed, 
 extension or piazza, shall not be commenced or proceeded with 
 until the said owner, architect or builder shall receive a certificate 
 or permit from the Committee on Buildings and Encroachments, 
 after examination by the Inspector of Buildings into such plans 
 and specifications, and they are satisfied that the requirements of 
 the building ordinances are to be complied with. 
 
 Within the fire district all permits shall be approved by the 
 Common Council of said City. 
 
 SEC. 13. Duties of Building Inspector. It shall be the duty of 
 the Inspector of Buildings, in addition to the duties otherwise pro- 
 vided for by the ordinances of said city to examine the condition 
 of all buildings being erected or undergoing alterations, and notify 
 the owners of said building of any violation of any part of this 
 ordinance, and also report the same to said Committee on Build- 
 ings and Encroachments, or to the Common Council of said City, 
 either of whom shall cause the notice to be served of such viola- 
 tion, on the person, persons or corporation to whom was granted 
 the permit for the erection or alteration of such building, or struc- 
 ture, or upon said person, or persons, found so violating this ordi- 
 nance. Said notice shall specify said violation and order its 
 remedy, and the manner thereof, and the time within which the 
 order and remedy shall be complied with, and a copy of such
 
 CHAPTER VII. 23 
 
 ERECTION OF BUILDINGS. 
 
 order shall be left with the owner of the land or premises, or their 
 acting agents, respecting which such order is made, or at his or 
 their usual place of abode or business, and the same shall be con- 
 sidered sufficient notice under the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 14. Changes in Plans, etc.; Penalty'. Every person who 
 shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance by omitting to 
 report in writing to said Committee on Buildings and Encroach- 
 ments, or to said Inspector of Buildings, any change of plans or 
 specifications from that upon which said permit was granted, with- 
 in thirty days after said change is in said plans and specifications 
 effected, shall forfeit and pay to the city the sum of fifty dollars ; 
 any one who shall continue to violate any of said provisions by 
 non-compliance therewith, or with the notice and order of said 
 Common Council, or said Committee on Buildings and Encroach- 
 ments, shall forfeit and pay to the city the sum of fifty dollars for 
 each and every month or fractional part of any month of said vio- 
 lation, on non-compliance with said notice and order. 
 
 SEC. 15. Ordinance Not Retroactive. The provisions of this 
 ordinance shall not apply to buildings in course of construction or 
 alteration for which a permit has been granted at the time it be- 
 comes a law. 
 
 SEC. 1 6. Fresfor Permits. There shall be a fee of $i charged 
 for each permit for buildings not to exceed in cost $1,000 ; a fee 
 of $2 for each permit for buildings not to exceed in cost $2,000 ; 
 a fee of $3 for each permit for buildings not to exceed in cost 
 $3,000 ; a fee of $4 for each permit for buildings not to exceed in 
 cost $4,000, and a fee of $5 for each permit for buildings to cost 
 over $4,000, said cost of buildings to be determined by the In- 
 spector of Buildings and Committee on Buildings and Encroach- 
 ments. Said fees must be paid by the applicant to the city clerk 
 at the time of said application and the money is to be returned if 
 the permit is not granted. All moneys received as fees, as afore- 
 said, for permits, to be accounted for and paid into the city 
 treasury once in every month.
 
 24 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 17. Removal of Buildings; Jurisdiction of Inspector. It 
 shall, however, be lawful, for any person, persons, or corporations 
 to move buildings within the fire district from the front of their 
 property to the rear of the same lot when a permit has been issued 
 to said person, persons, or corporations to erect on the front of 
 said lot, a building or buildings, in accordance with this ordinance, 
 provided, however, that the location of the building or buildings 
 moved shall not be near other wooden buildings ; the Committee 
 on Buildings and Encroachments shall investigate in such cases to 
 see whether in their opinion such removal or removals will increase 
 the fire risk, and shall report to the Common Council, which shall 
 act on it, the same as on other reports of the same committee. 
 
 All buildings erected in this city, whether in the fire district or 
 not, which shall be constructed one story or more in height, or, as 
 provided in Section i2th, shall be under the supervision of the 
 Building Inspector. The same fees shall be paid on permits 
 granted under this section as for buildings erected within the fire 
 district. 
 
 SEC. 1 8. Stay of Progress, etc.; Fire Escapes; Protection of 
 Woodwork, etc. ; Penalty. Whenever said Inspector shall find in 
 any building in course of construction, a non-compliance with any 
 of the preceding sections, he may order a stay of progress in the 
 construction until he can report the same, and orders may be 
 issued by the Common Council, or the Committee on Buildings 
 and Encroachments for the correction of such defects, and any 
 person who shall violate any such order for stay of progress, shall 
 forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty (50) dollars. The Inspector 
 shall see that the State law as regards fire escapes and outside 
 doors, swinging outwardly is complied with, and if not, to report 
 the same to the proper authorities for enforcement. No ceilings, 
 walls, partitions, beams, timber or wood of any kind, is to be 
 within four (4) feet of any boiler, hot air, hot water, or steam 
 furnace, unless the same shall have a fire proof protection of brick, 
 metal or asbestos, and all pipes used for conveying heat, where
 
 CHAPTER VII. 25 
 
 ERECTION OF BUILDINGS. 
 
 within an inch of wood must have an outer collar with an airspace 
 between, or the wood protected by asbestos or metal of some de- 
 scription. 
 
 SEC. ig. Enforcement of Orders of Council. Whenever the In- 
 spector of Buildings presents a complaint for violation of the ordi- 
 nances of the city, or of the statute laws of this State regarding 
 the construction of Buildings, to the Common Council, or to the 
 Committee on Buildings and Encroachments, said Common Coun- 
 cil may issue such orders as it or they may deem necessary for the 
 remedy of the defects complained of. In case such order is not 
 complied with within the time specified therein, said Common 
 Council, or said Committee, shall cause the matter or thing thereby 
 required to be performed, to be done at the expense of the owner, 
 or owners, of the premises respecting which the order is made, and 
 such expense shall be collected from said owner, or owners, by an 
 action of debt, brought in the name of the city. 
 
 SEC. 20. Inspector to Keep Record. The Inspector of Build- 
 ings shall keep a record book in which he shall enter at length all 
 inspections made by him, and all complaints made by him, 
 and to him, and shall make a general report to the Common 
 Council when required. 
 
 SEC. 21. Resisting Inspector; Penalty Any person who shall 
 hinder, obstruct, resist or abuse said Inspector of Buildings or 
 Superintendent of Electrical Department in the discharge of the 
 duties imposed upon them by this ordinance, shall pay a penalty 
 of not less than ten ($10) nor more than fifty ($50) dollais. 
 
 SEC. 22. Fire Marshal; Penalty. The Building Inspector shall 
 also act as a Fire Marshal. It shall be his duty to inspect at least 
 once a month the cellars and yards of all stores and tenement 
 blocks in the fire district and if any combustible material is found, 
 to notify the owner or occupant to remove the same at once. 
 
 Failure to comply with such notification shall be deemed a mis- 
 demeanor and shall be subject to a fine of not less than five (5) 
 dollars for each and every day after said notification.
 
 26 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 The Fire Marshal shall make an investigation of all fires that 
 may occur in the city and shall report the cause of the same to the 
 Fire Commissioners. 
 
 SEC. 23. Permits Good for One Year. Permits to build or re- 
 pair buildings shall be good for one year only after date of said 
 permit, it being understood that permits can be renewed without 
 further cost to the applicant if found necessary and if the condi- 
 tions are the same as at the time the permit was granted. 
 
 CHAPTER VIJI. 
 
 FIRE. 
 Be it ordaintd by the Common Council of the City of New Britain: 
 
 SECTION i. Fire Department Companies and Officers. The Fire 
 Department of said city shall consist of a Chief Engineer and one 
 Assistant Engineer, four hose companies with a foreman, one 
 assistant foreman and six hosemen each, one hook and ladder 
 company with a foreman, one assistant foreman and ten ladder- 
 men, and seven permanent drivers. There shall be three steam 
 fire engines with an engineer and stoker for each engine, said en- 
 gines to be located at Engine Houses Nos. i, 2 and 3 respectively. 
 There shall be appointed two substitutes for each hose company 
 and the hook and ladder company who shall be required to answer 
 all fire alarms and shall be compensated as provided in Section 8 
 of this Chapter. 
 
 SEC. 2. Duties and Powers of Chief Engineer. The Chief En- 
 gineer under the supervision of the Fire Commissioners shall have 
 the superintendence, care and direction of fire engines, hose carts, 
 hook and ladder trucks, hose, and all other apparatus belonging 
 to said city \ he shall see that the same, with houses in which they
 
 CHAPTER VIIL 2? 
 
 FIRES. 
 
 are stored, and the fire hydrants belonging to the city, are kept in 
 good order and repair and ready for immediate use ; he shall have 
 sole command at fires over the Assistant Engineer and all other 
 members of the Fire Department, and all other persons present at 
 fires, and shall direct all proper measures for the extinguishment 
 of fires, protection of property, preservation of order, and the 
 observance of all laws, ordinances and regulations respecting fires, 
 and whenever at any time it shall be deemed necessary by the 
 Chief Engineer to pull down or demolish any building, in order to 
 prevent the spreading of fire, he shall order the same to be done. He 
 shall also keep an account of all fires occurring in said city and shall 
 report, annually, to the Fire Commissioners at their first meeting 
 in April, all fires that have occurred during the previous year, and 
 the cause, or supposed cause, of such fires, and the estimate 
 damage in each ; and such report shall be accompanied with a full 
 inventory of all the property belonging to said department, and 
 with such recommendations as he shall deem important, and he 
 shall perform such other duties connected with said department as 
 the Fire Commissioners may from time to time require. 
 
 SEC. 3. Assistant Engineer. It shall be the duty of the Assist- 
 ant Engineer to assist the Chief Engineer in the discharge of his 
 duties, to receive and communicate his orders at a fire and see that 
 they are executed, and in the absence of the Chief Engineer, his 
 duties and powers in case of fire shall devolve upon the Assistant 
 Engineer, with the assistance of any foreman that he may call 
 upon. 
 
 SEC. 4. Authority at Fires The Chief Engineer and Assistant 
 Engineer shall severally have all power and authority necessary to 
 preserve order and enforce their commands at a fire, and may use 
 such force and command and require the aid and assistance of 
 such person or persons as may be necessary for that purpose. 
 
 SEC. 5. Inspection of Factories. It shall be the duty of the 
 Chief Engineer and Assistant Engineer to visit the different manu- 
 facturing establishments located in said city, and blocks within the
 
 28 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 fire limits of said city used in whole or in part as dwellings, as 
 often as twice a year and ascertain the location of all gates, hy- 
 drants, water pipes, hose and connections on said premises, and 
 make record thereof if deemed necessary ; to acquaint themselves 
 with all means in use by said manufacturing establishments or 
 blocks for the prevention or extinguishment of fires, and to make 
 such suggestions to the proprietors as they may deem necessary, 
 to more effectually provide means of access to, or escape from any 
 building in case of fire, so as to prevent loss of life and more 
 effectually protect the property therein. 
 
 SEC. 6. Duties of Foremen- Foremen of companies shall see 
 that the apparatus committed to their care, the buildings in which 
 the same are housed, and all articles in or belonging to the same 
 are kept neat and clean ; shall preserve order and discipline at all 
 times in their respective companies, and enforce strict compliance 
 with the regulations of the department as made by the Board of 
 Fire Commissioners. 
 
 SEC. 7. Duties of Clerk; Penalty. The clerk of each company 
 shall keep in a book, to be provided by the Fire Commissioners, a 
 true and exact roll of the officers and members of such company, 
 specifying the name, age, occupation, residence, and date of the 
 enlistment and discharge of each member ; shall keep a faithful 
 record of the delinquencies and fines of members, and furnish 
 copies of the same to the Fire Commissioners on the first day of 
 each month ; and all company books and papers in possession of 
 any clerk, shall be deemed the property of the city, and shall be 
 by him surrendered to the Chief Engineer, when so ordered by the 
 Fire Commissioners ; and any clerk refusing to deliver said books 
 and papers, when so ordered, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
 twenty dollars. 
 
 SEC. 8. Compensation of Firemen. There shall be paid to the 
 several members of the fire department who shall faithfully perform 
 their respective duties, the following compensation, to wit : To the 
 chief engineer at the rate of four hundred and fifty dollars per an-
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 29 
 
 FIRES. 
 
 num ; to the 'assistant engineer at the rate of three hundred and 
 fifty dollars per annum ; to the engineer of each steam fire engine 
 at the rate of three hundred dollars per annum ; to the stoker of 
 the same at the rate two of hundred and twenty dollars per annum; 
 to the foreman of each company at the rate of two hundred and 
 fifty dollars per annum ; to each assistant foreman at the rate of 
 two hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum ; to every member 
 of a company at the rate of two hundred dollars per annum ; to 
 every permanent driver at the rate of eight hundred dollars per 
 annum ; to each substitute for each hose and hook and ladder 
 company the sum of fifty cents for each and every alarm of fire re- 
 sponded to and the regular pay of a member of a company while 
 acting as a substitute for a regular man temporarily ; fines shall be 
 imposed on the substitute only while "acting temporarily for a regular 
 man. But no person shall be entitled to any portion of the compensa- 
 tion hereby provided until the time appointed for the payment of 
 the same in the ninth section of this ordinance, and if at the 
 time such compensation becomes payable any member of said de- 
 partment shall have incurred any penalty, fine or forfeiture for the 
 violation of any provision of this ordinance and shall not have 
 paid the same, he shall be entitled to receive only so much of said 
 compensation as shall remain after deducting the amount of such 
 penalty, fine or forfeiture. 
 
 SEC. g. Payment of Fire Department. Payment of the com- 
 pensation of the members of the fire department shall be made in 
 quarterly installments, payable on the last day of March, June, 
 September and December, and to facilitate the same, it shall be 
 the duty of the clerk of the Board of Fire Commissioners on or 
 before the third day of January, April, July and October in each 
 year to make out a pay roll on which shall be entered the names 
 of the chief engineer, assistant engineer, engineers and stokers of 
 the steam fire engines, and all officers, members and substitutes of 
 each company in said department, the number of months' service 
 and the amount due each, after deducting all penalties, fines or 
 forfeitures, if any, unpaid on said dates.
 
 30 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 10. Pay Roll. The clerk of fire commissioners shall prepare 
 quarterly a correct pay roll of the Fire Department, which shall be 
 approved by a majority of said board by writing their names across 
 the same, and they shall then deliver it to the City Auditor, who 
 shall draw his order on the treasurer in favor of each individual 
 account on the pay roll, and deliver the same to the City Clerk, who 
 shall pay the members of the department taking a receipt for the 
 same from each member. 
 
 SEC. ii. Taking Fire Apparatus Beyond City Limits. No ap- 
 paratus owned or controlled by the city shall be taken beyond the 
 city limits, except for assistance in case of fire, and then only by 
 permission of the Chief Engineer, or in his absence, the Assistant 
 Engineer. Any officer or member of a company, who shall fail to 
 be present at any fire without an excuse, satisfactory to the Fire 
 Commissioners, shall forfeit and pay a fine of two dollars for the 
 first offence, three dollars for the second offence and four dollars 
 for the third offence, in any one quarter, and the Chief Engineer 
 may immediately suspend the member without pay until the Fire 
 Commissioners take action in the matter. Upon the third offence 
 any member shall be dismissed from the department, should he 
 fail to show good cause for his neglect of duty. Any officer or 
 member of a company wilfully neglecting or refusing to perform 
 any of the duties prescribed in this ordinance shall be liable to 
 dismissal from the Fire Department. 
 
 SEC. 12. false Alarm ; Penalty. Any person who shall know- 
 ingly give a false alarm of fire in said city, or shall knowingly pro- 
 claim that any fire is extinguished when it is not, shall be guilty of 
 misdemeanor and be fined not less than seven nor more than thirty 
 dollars. 
 
 SEC. 13. Honorary Membership. Every person who shall have 
 served according to the law, in the Fire Department, for six suc- 
 cessive years, shall be entitled to receive a certificate, signed by 
 the Mayor and City Clerk, and any member receiving such certifi-
 
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 FIRES. 
 
 cate shall be considered an honorary member of the department, 
 and entitled to wear such badge as may be designated by the Com- 
 mon Council. 
 
 SEC. 14. Fire Implements ; Penalty. Any person or persons 
 who shall take or remove any of the ladders or other implements 
 for extinguishing fires, belonging to said city, from the places where 
 deposited, except in case of fire, or shall use any such ladder or 
 other implement, or cause the same to be used when so taken, 
 shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than five nor more than 
 twenty dollars for each offence. 
 
 SEC. 15. Dismissal. The Chief Engineer, or in his absence the 
 Assistant Engineer, with the approbation of the Fire Commis- 
 sioners may, and for the second offence shall, dismiss from said 
 Department any officer or member of any company for neglect of 
 duty, drunkenness, disorderly conduct, disobedience of orders, or 
 wilful violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance, and 
 such dismissed member shall not be entitled to compensation for 
 his services. 
 
 SEC. 1 6. Annual Inspection. There shall be, annually, in the 
 month of September an inspection of the Fire Department, at such 
 time and place as the Fire Commissioners may direct. 
 
 SEC. 17. Lights, Matches, etc.; Penalty. No person shall 
 carry into or use in any barn, stable or other building in said city, 
 in which hay, straw, stalks, husks, or other combustible material is 
 deposited or kept, any lighted candle, lamp, or fire, unless the 
 same shall be well secured in a lantern, nor carry into or use in 
 such building any lighted pipe or cigar, nor throw down or drop 
 therein any matches unused or with any fire on them, nor keep 
 therein any matches except in a fire-proof box or match safe, nor 
 throw or drop therein any fire crackers, or fire works of any kind. 
 And every person who shall violate any of the foregoing provisions 
 of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than five 
 nor more than fifty dollars for each offence.
 
 32 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 1 8. Fire Works and Bonfires; Penalty. Every person who shall 
 use or explode any fire crackers or fireworks of any kind, or make, 
 assist in making or kindling, any bonfire in any street or public 
 park of said city, without the written consent of the Chief of Police 
 countersigned by the Mayor, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of five 
 dollars for each offence. 
 
 SEC. 19. Discharging Fire Arms ; Record of Permits ; Penalty. 
 No person shall discharge any gun, pistol, cannon, or other fire- 
 arms of any sort or description within the limits of said city unless 
 by written permission of the Chief of Police, or by order of some 
 military officer on occasion of military exercises and parade, and 
 such permit of said Chief of Police shall state the date, length of 
 time of such permit, and the name of the person, club, or organi- 
 zation to whom such permission is granted, and a record thereof 
 shall be kept by the Chief of Police in a book provided for the 
 purpose, and whoever shall discharge any pistol, gun, or cannon, 
 or other firearms, without permission as aforesaid, shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor and be fined five dollars for each offence. 
 
 SEC. 20. Discharging Fire Works ; Penalty. Any person who 
 shall discharge any fireworks except upon the fourth day of July, 
 so as to annoy and cause serious discomfort to any inhabitant of 
 said city, shall forfeit and pay for each offence a penalty of five 
 dollars. 
 
 SEC. 21. Liability of Parents and Guardians. If any minor or 
 apprentice shall be guilty of a breach of any of the provisions of 
 this ordinance, punishable by forfeiture, the parent, guardian, or 
 master of such minor or apprentice, shall be liable to pay the for- 
 feiture incurred thereby, and may be sued therefore in a proper 
 action brought in the name of said city upon this ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 22. Hitching to Fire Alarm Poles, etc. ; Posting Bills ; 
 Penalty. No person shall post or in any manner affix any placards, 
 bills, or notice, either written or printed, upon any of the Fire 
 Alarm Telegraph poles or boxes in said city nor hitch nor fasten 
 any horse or other animal to any of the Fire Alarm Telegraph poles
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 33 
 
 FIRES. 
 
 in said city, nor wilfully injure, deface, nor in any manner inter- 
 fere with any of the Fire Alarm Telegraph poles, boxes, wires, or 
 any of the apparatus connected with the Fire Alarm Telegragh ; 
 any person offending against any of the provisions of this section 
 of this ordinance, shall forfeit and pay for each offence a penalty 
 of not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars. 
 
 SEC. 23. Delivery of Goods. No goods shall be delivered to 
 the Fire Department except upon a written order signed by one or 
 more members of the board of Fire Commissioners. 
 
 SEC. 24. Bills, How Presented. Bills must accompany all 
 goods when delivered, said bills to be approved by the person 
 who receives the same by writing his approval and certificate 
 across the face of the bill with his signature and the date of same. 
 When goods are purchased by weight it shall be the duty of the 
 receiver to weigh the same on scales. All bills must be trans- 
 mitted to the chairman or clerk of the board within twenty-four 
 hours after the goods are received. 
 
 SEC. 25. Bills, How Approved. All bills before being paid 
 must be approved by a majority of the commissioners, said ap- 
 proval being made by said commissioners writing their names 
 across the face of the bill. After such approval the bill must be 
 placed upon the record book of the board, giving the names of the 
 commissioners who approved the bill, the party ordering the goods, 
 and to whom delivered. 
 
 SEC. 26. Book Accounts. The board shall keep a set of books, 
 entering thereon the debits and credits of each individual or cor- 
 poration with whom it has dealings, showing each and every 
 transaction. 
 
 SEC. 27. Official Acts, How Approved. All official acts of the 
 board, or any member of the same, must be approved by a ma- 
 jority of the commissioners and spread upon their records. Any 
 member or members of the board who may transact business shall 
 report said transactions in full at the next regular meeting of the 
 board, and such report or reports must be spread upon the records 
 of said meeting.
 
 34 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 28. Purchase of Supplies. All supplies must be purchased 
 to the best advantage of the city, even in car load lots when it is 
 deemed best ; all orders for car load lots to give price and quality 
 and to bear the signature of a majority of the board. 
 
 SEC. 29. Bids to be Advertised For. Bids for furnishing the 
 supplies, doing the repair work, shoeing the horses, laundry work 
 and care of rooms in various houses must be advertised whenever 
 it may be deemed best to do so by a majority of the board. In 
 awarding the contract for furnishing the supplies and doing the 
 work preference shall be given when practicable to the lowest re- 
 sponsible bidder. 
 
 SEC. 30. Salary of Chairman. The salary of the chairman of 
 the board shall be $200 per year on and after April n, 1900. 
 
 SEC. 31. To Examine Accounts. The finance committee of the 
 Common Council, in conjunction with the board of Fire Commis- 
 sioners, shall in February of each year, examine the accounts of 
 the board, to formulate an estimate of the expenses for the suc- 
 ceeding year, and shall report said estimate to the Common 
 Council. 
 
 SEC. 32. Inventory of Fire Department. The board of Fire 
 Commissioners, in conjunction with the Chief Engineer of the de- 
 partment, shall make a careful inventory each March of the property 
 belonging to the city, in their charge, which inventory shall be a 
 part of the annual report. Said inventory shall be made by com- 
 panies, and spread upon the records of the board. Additions 
 made to the department must also be noted on the said inventory 
 account 
 
 SEC. 33. Purchases to be Reported. The board of Fire Com- 
 missioners shall report all purchases of apparatus or horses or 
 transactions involving an outlay of $250.00 or more to the Mayor 
 and Common Council, said purchase to be reported at the next 
 regular meeting of the Common Council.
 
 CHAPTER IX. 35 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
 SEC. 34. Bond of Chairman. The chairman of the board of 
 Fire Commissioners shall furnish bonds to the city in the sum of 
 $2,500.00, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duty ; 
 said bond to be renewed each year upon his election as such 
 chairman. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
 SECTION i. Superintendent of Electrical Departments. The 
 Superintendent of the Electrical Department shall immediately 
 upon the passage of this ordinance, be elected by the members of 
 the board of Fire Commissioners and the board of Police Com- 
 missioners, to hold office during good behavior and efficiency, the 
 said commissioners to hold a joint session for the purpose of elect- 
 ing said Superintendent of the Electrical Department. 
 
 Charges may be made in writing against said superintendent, to 
 the members of the above boards, and if upon investigation, there 
 is, in their opinion, sufficient cause for his removal, they are hereby 
 empowered to make such removal and also to elect his successor. 
 
 SEC. 2. Duties of Superintendent. It shall be his duty to in- 
 spect as often as may be necessary, and keep ic repair all electrical 
 apparatus and wires, or other conduits, for carrying electric cur- 
 rents within the city of New Britain and to report forthwith to the 
 party owning or operating such wires or conduits, any and all 
 structural or other defects which he may discover in the placing, 
 locating or operating of the same, and which in his judgment are, 
 or may become dangerous to persons or property and to suggest 
 such remedy for such defects as he may think best suited to meet 
 the circumstances of each case.
 
 36 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 It shall be his duty to inspect all buildings in the city, hereafter 
 wired or rewired for electric lighting, or use of electric power, and 
 keep a record of the same. 
 
 SEC. 3. Removal of Wires. He shall also cause to be removed 
 all wires not in service and such as are commonly known as dead 
 wires, and shall report to the Common Council for action all cases 
 in which the party owning or controlling the same shall neglect or 
 refuse to remove them after due notice from the inspector, in writ- 
 ing, so to do. 
 
 He shall require the parties owning or operating any such 
 dangerous or defective wires immediately to remedy the difficulty 
 in accordance with his suggestions, or to his satisfaction. 
 
 Should any party refuse or neglect to comply within a reasona- 
 ble time with such requirements of the Superintendent of the Elec- 
 trical Department, he shall report the fact to the Common Council 
 at its meeting and request action thereon, and shall submit with 
 such report a draft of such order as in his judgment shall be re- 
 quired in the premises and shall recommend the passage of the 
 same ; and the Common Council at the same or next subsequent 
 meeting shall act upon such order pursuant to the provisions of the 
 general statutes of the State relating to the direction and control 
 of electrical construction by municipal bodies. 
 
 SEC. 4. May Be Officer of Fire Department. Such Superin- 
 tendent of the Electrical Department may continue to be an officer 
 of the Fire Department, and subject to the rules, laws and regula- 
 tions made for him by the board of Fire Commissioners. 
 
 SEC. 5. Salary. The superintendent herein provided for shall 
 receive an annual compensation of nine hundred and fifty dollars. 
 
 SEC. 6. No electrical contractor, or other person or persons 
 shall wire or rewire any building in this city (factories excepted) 
 for electric lights or power, without first obtaining a permit from 
 the Superintendent of Electrical Department of the city, and in no 
 case shall work be started until such permit has been made in 
 writing to the Superintendent of Electrical Department, and in no
 
 CHAPTER X. 37 
 
 HEALTH. 
 
 case shall wires be concealed before being inspected by said super- 
 intendent, who shall be notified in writing that such work is ready 
 for his inspection. 
 
 Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall 
 forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than five ($5.00) dollars and 
 not more than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars. 
 
 SEC. 7. In case the Superintendent of Electrical Department 
 becomes aware of any line construction, etc., being done without 
 proper permit from the Common Council, he shall immediately 
 order the parties who are doing the work to stop any further work 
 being done until such permit has been obtained and such work 
 shall therefore be suspended until a permit therefor shall be ob- 
 tained. 
 
 SEC. 8. No wire or wires shall cross a public highway less than 
 twenty-one (21) feet in height, no guy wires shall be placed on 
 public streets (parallel with streets) less than ten (10) feet above, 
 the ground at the lowest point. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 HEALTH. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New 
 Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Appointment of Health Committee. The Common 
 Council shall annually appoint a committee, who may or may not 
 be members thereof, to be denominated the Health Committee. 
 The chairman of the Heaith Committee shall be the executive offi- 
 cer of the committee. All complaints relative to the Health De- 
 partment shall be made to the City Health Officer. 
 
 SEC. 2. Appointment of Sanitary Inspector. The Common 
 Council shall appoint a Sanitary Inspector, who shall act as an 
 assistant to the Health Officer and Health Committee, and render 
 such services as are desired by said Health Officer and Health
 
 38 CHAPTER X. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 Committee, so far as in his power lies, the pay for which shall be 
 fixed by the Common Council, said appointment to be made during 
 the month of April each year, and the person so appointed to hold 
 office from and after the first day in May following his appoint- 
 ment and until his successor is duly appointed and qualified. The 
 person so appointed Sanitary Inspector shall also be Building In- 
 spector, and perform the services incident to said office, the pay 
 fixed by the Common Council to include his services in both 
 capacities. 
 
 SEC. 3. Qualifications of Sanitary Inspector. No person shall 
 be appointed as Sanitary Inspector unless he shall have had actual 
 experience either as an architect, builder or plumber. 
 
 SEC. 4. Duties of Health Committee. The Health Committee 
 shall hold meetings as often as is necessary. A meeting may be 
 called at any time by sending proper notices to the members of the 
 committee. Meetings of the Health Committee may be called by 
 the clerk of the -committee at any time, either by request of the 
 chairman, or of any three members of the committee. Three 
 members shall constitute a quorum, and regular business of the 
 committee shall only be transacted when a quorum is present. 
 Minutes of said meetings shall be kept by the City Clerk, who shall 
 be clerk of said committee. The records of this committee shall 
 be a part of the public records and shall be kept in the City Clerk's 
 office, and shall be at all times subject to public inspection. It 
 shall be the duty -of said Health Committee to keep a general over- 
 sight over matters relating to the health of the city for the purpose 
 of causing all nuisances, injurious to the public health and safety, 
 to be removed or suppressed, and said committee, its chairman or 
 any two of them, are hereby empowered to inspect, as often as 
 they deem necessary, all markets, shops, and other places in said 
 city, and whenever they shall find filth or putrefaction in any market, 
 shop, or other place by them visited, which in their opinion may 
 prove detrimental to the health of the inhabitants of said city or 
 any portion thereof, said committee, or any two of them, shall
 
 CHAPTER X. 39 
 
 HEALTH. 
 
 make a report thereof to the City Health Officer, to be dealt with 
 according to law. 
 
 SEC. 5. Abatement of Nuisance. If any person or persons upon 
 whom an order shall be made for removing a nuisance, or for 
 cleaning and purifying the land, building or place where such 
 nuisance shall be found, shall neglect to obey such order in the 
 manner and time appointed by the City Health Officer, said City 
 Health Officer may cause such nuisance to be removed or abated, 
 and such land, building or place to be cleansed and purified, and 
 the Common Council shall adjust, liquidate and pay the expense 
 thereof, and the same shall be collected of such person or persons 
 in default as aforesaid by a civil action in the name of the city. 
 
 SEC. 6- Inspection of Plumbing and Drainage. The plumbing 
 and drainage of all dwelling houses and tenements in the City of 
 New Britain, shall be subject to the inspection of the Health Com- 
 mittee and the Sanitary Inspector, and for this purpose they are 
 hereby authorized to enter into or upon any dwelling house or 
 tenement either in course of construction or otherwise in said city. 
 Whenever, upon such inspection, it shall appear to the committee, 
 its chairman, or any two of them, that the plumbing or drainage 
 is defective or that any soil pipe or ventilating pipe from any 
 dwelling or other building is placed and maintained with its open- 
 ing below the roof or roofs of surrounding buildings, so as to be a 
 detriment to the health of the neighborhood, they shall issue such 
 orders for the immediate remedy of the defects discovered as they 
 may deem necessary. 
 
 SEC. 7. Penalty. Every owner of a dwelling house or tene- 
 ment who shall fail to execute any order issued in accordance with 
 the foregoing section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of ten dollars 
 for each and every week of non-compliance with said order. 
 
 SEC. 8. Rules as to Plumbing and Drainage. The Board of 
 Health and Sanitary Inspector shall draw up such general rules 
 and specifications in regard to plumbing and drainage as are 
 necessary for the protection of health and shall furnish a copy of 
 same to every plumber and builder in the city.
 
 40 CHAPTER X. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 9. Building Plans to Be Approved. No building shall 
 hereafter be erected, or in any material manner altered or repaired, 
 unless the owner or the person having charge of such erection, 
 alteration or repairs shall have first submitted the plans, specifica- 
 tions and details therefor, in so far as the same shall relate to 
 plumbing and drainage, to the Board of Health, and received the 
 approval of said Board and of the Sanitary Inspector. 
 
 SEC. 10. Approval Necessary. No plumber or contractor for 
 plumbing work upon any building shall construct any work requir- 
 ing approval as aforesaid, until such approval has first been ob- 
 tained, and in the construction of all such work strict conformity 
 shall be had to the rules and regulations as regards plumbing and 
 drainage of the Board of Health. 
 
 SEC. n. Certificates of Approval. When the plumbing work 
 upon any building requiring inspection and approval as aforesaid 
 shall be completed to the satisfaction of the Board of Health and 
 of the Sanitary Inspector, it shall issue a written certificate of 
 approval, a copy of which and all other proceedings in the matter 
 shall be kept on file, or recorded, and until such certificate has 
 been issued, it shall not be lawful for the owner, manager, or agent of 
 said property to allow the same to be occupied for human habitation. 
 
 SEC. 12. Penalty. Any person or persons violating any of the 
 provisions of sections 9, 10 and n of this ordinance shall pay a 
 penalty of not less than one and not more than fifty dollars for 
 each offence. 
 
 SEC. 13. Malignant Conta giys Diseases; Quarantine of . Every 
 lodging-house keeper, hotel keeper or house holder in said city in 
 whose dwelling shall occur a case of diphtheria, scarlet fever, small 
 pox or any other malignant contagious disease shall notify the 
 City Health Officer of said city of the same within twenty-four 
 hours after its occurrence. The City Health Officer' shall, if he 
 deems it necessary for the public health, quarantine the case, or 
 in case of small pox, order its removal to such place as may be 
 designated for the reception of persons suffering from such dis-
 
 CHAPTER X. 41 
 
 HEALTH. 
 
 ease, and he shall direct the disinfection of every house and dis- 
 posal of all infected articles. 
 
 SEC. 14. Persons Exposed to Such Diseases^. No person living 
 in any family wherein any person is afflicted with any of said ma- 
 lignant contagious diseases shall attend school or any public assem- 
 blage of persons without the permission of the City Health Officer 
 or the physician who shall be attending said sick person, and no 
 person who shall have been afflicted with any of said malignant 
 contagious diseases shall attend school or any other public assem- 
 blage of persons until the City Health Officer or the physician who 
 shall attend such sick person shall certify in writing that such sick 
 person is convalescent and all danger from contagion is passed. 
 
 SEC. 15. Physicians to Report. Every physician who shall at- 
 tend any person who shall be afflicted with any of the above men- 
 tioned malignant contagious diseases shall forthwith report the 
 same to the City Health Officer giving the street and number of 
 the house where such sick person resides, and every physician who 
 shall attend any person suffering from any of said malignant con- 
 tagious diseases where any child of the family of such sick person 
 shall be attending any public school, shall also immediately notify 
 the teacher of the school which such child attends of the existence 
 of said disease in said family, and if no physician shall be in 
 attendance on said sick person, the parents or guardian of said 
 child shall immediately give such notice, and the teacher of such 
 school shall exclude said child from the same until the attending 
 physician or City Health Officer shall certify that all danger from 
 contagion is passed. 
 
 SEC. 1 6. Teachers to Report. Whenever any teacher or teach- 
 ers shall become cognizant of the existence of any such malignant 
 contagious disease in any house from which children attend 
 school, it shall be their duty forthwith to report the same to one 
 of the acting school visitors or the superintendent of schools. 
 
 SEC. 17. Public Funerals Prohibited. No public funeral shall 
 be held of any person who shall die from any of the above men-
 
 42 CHAPTER X. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 tioned malignant contagious diseases unless by the consent in 
 writing of the City Health Cffficer. 
 
 SEC. 1 8. Quarantined Houses. No person other than attend- 
 ing physicians or attendants shall enter a dwelling house in which 
 any person is afflicted with any of said malignant contagious dis- 
 eases, nor shall any person living in the said dwelling house, where 
 said disease shall exist, leave the same, after the said dwelling 
 house shall. have been quarantined, without the consent in writing 
 of the City Health Officer. 
 
 SEC. 19. Penalty for Removal. No person shall without a per- 
 mit from the City Health Officer carry or remove from one build- 
 ing to another any person sick with a contagious disease or any 
 clothing or other articles which may have been exposed to infection. 
 
 SEC. 20. Persons Not to Enter City. No one sick with a con- 
 tagious disease shall come nor shall anyone bring or cause to be 
 brought into the city of New Britain any person known or reason- 
 ably suspected to be sick with a contagious disease or any articles 
 which shall have been exposed to infection from any such disease 
 without a permit from the City Health Officer. 
 
 SEC. 21. Carriages to be Disinfected. No hack, cab, stage, 
 carriage, electric car or other public or private conveyance in 
 which a person has been carried known to the owner, driver, con- 
 ductor or other person having charge thereof, to be sick of a con- 
 tagious disease shall be thereafter used for the carrying of any 
 passenger until such vehicle or car shall have been disinfected to 
 the satisfaction of the City Health Officer. 
 
 SEC. 22. Warning Notice. No person shall tear down or de- 
 face any notice or flag which shall be put upon or near any dwell- 
 ing house to give warning of the existence of any malignant or 
 contagious disease in said dwelling house. 
 
 SEC. 23. Penalty. Every person who shall violate any of the 
 provisions of this ordinance 'in regard to malignant contagious dis- 
 eases shall pay a penalty of not less than ten (#10) and not more 
 than fifty (#50) dollars.
 
 CHAPTER X. 43 
 
 HEALTH. 
 
 SEC. 24. Size of Sleeping Rooms The occupying of any room 
 in said city for the purpose of sleeping at night in which there 
 shall be more than one adult person for each 350 cubic feet of 
 space is hereby prohibited, and any person who shall occupy any 
 room contrary to the foregoing provision, or shall let or permit 
 the same to be so occupied, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
 shall pay a penalty of not less than five ($5.00) and not more 
 than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 25. Expenditures; Delegation of Duties. No member of 
 the Health Committee shall expend any moneys for or contract 
 any bills without the consent of a majority of said Board passed 
 upon at any regular meeting, except in a case of emergency where 
 public safety is in jeopardy. Any bill contracted by any member 
 of this committee contrary to this section shall not be legal or 
 binding upon the city. No member of said committee shall be 
 authorized to assume full control of the business of the Health 
 Committee, nor shall any member of said committee take any 
 action in reference to the regular business of the committee (except 
 in emergency cases) except by vote of a majority of said com- 
 mittee at a regularly warned meeting. 
 
 SEC. 26. Violations of Ordinance. It shall be the duty of the 
 Health Committee to report every violation of this ordinance to 
 the Prosecuting Attorney, who shall prosecute the same before the 
 Police Court. 
 
 SEC. 27. Plumbers License. On and after August i, 1902, 
 every master plumber carrying on the business of plumbing in the 
 city of New Britain shall under such rules and regulations as the 
 Board of Health of said city shall prescribe, petition the said 
 Board of Health for and receive a license, the fee for such license 
 shall be $1.00, and shall be renewed annually on the payment of a 
 fee of 50 cents, and after said date it shall not be lawful for any 
 person to carry on the business of plumbing in the said city until 
 he shall have first received a license for the same.
 
 44 CHAPTER X. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 28. Violations of Ordinance. Any violations of the pro- 
 visions of the foregoing section, or of the rules and regulations 
 prescribed by the Board of Health with reference to the licensing 
 of master plumbers, shall be deemed a misdemeanor and be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not less than $1.00 nor more than $5.00. 
 
 SEC. 29. Garbage. No person within the limits of the City of 
 New Britain shall mingle with garbage intended for removal by the 
 garbage collector any ashes, store sweepings, glass, rubbish or 
 other indestructible waste, but such garbage shall be kept wholly 
 separate and apart from such indestructible waste matter in metal 
 cans suitable for the purpose, properly covered, and the same 
 shall be removed by the garbage collector under the direction of 
 the Health Committee, in water tight,' covered receptacles or carts. 
 Said committee shall make such provision for the removal, dispo- 
 sition or destruction of such garbage as shall be as inoffensive to 
 the people of the city, and as little prejudicial to the health as 
 possible. 
 
 SEC. 30. Carrier of Garbage. No person shall be a carrier of 
 garbage within the city without first obtaining from the Health 
 Committee,' a permit therefor, which shall be revocable at the 
 pleasure of said committee, and no person shall carry garbage 
 through the streets and public places of the city excepting in water 
 tight covered receptacles or carts. 
 
 SEC. 31. Duties of Inspector, etc. It shall be the duty of the 
 chairman of the Health Committee and the Sanitary Inspector, to 
 see that the provisions of these ordinances are complied with, and 
 to report to the Prosecuting Attorney violations thereof. 
 
 SEC. 32. Meaning of " Garbage." The word "garbage " as used 
 in this ordinance shall be construed to mean all kinds of house 
 garbage, offal, swill and other refuse or waste liable to decay. 
 
 SEC. 33. Violation of Ordinance. The violation of any pro- 
 vision of this ordinance shall be deemed a nuisance and punished 
 by a fine of not less than one dollar ($1.00) and not more than 
 five dollars ($5.00) for each offence.
 
 CHAPTER X. 45 
 
 HEALTH. 
 
 SEC. 34. Payment of Laborers. Whenever laborers are em- 
 ployed in the Health Department it shall be the duty of the clerk 
 of the Health Committee to make out a pay roll on which shall be 
 entered the names of every employe, the number of hours of work 
 performed by each for the preceding week, and the place where 
 such work was done, including teams, if any, the price per hour 
 and amount. And when such pay roll shall have been approved 
 by the Mayor, an order shall be drawn by the Auditor for the full 
 amount of the same, and the Auditor shall deliver the same to the 
 City Clerk, who shall draw the money on said order and pay the 
 employes on or before Saturday of each week, taking a receipt for 
 the same from each employe. 
 
 SEC. 35. Appointment of Milk Inspector. The Mayor, subject 
 to the approval of the Common Council, shall appoint one person, 
 who shall be a citizen of New Britain, who also shall be a graduate 
 of a recognized Veterinary College, to be "Milk Inspector." 
 
 Said appointment in 1904 shall be made within thirty (30) days 
 after the adoption of this ordinance, the person appointed to hold 
 office until the first day of May, 1905, or until his successor is 
 duly appointed and qualified, and thereafter such appointments 
 shall be made annually. 
 
 SEC. 36. Powers and Compensation. The Milk Inspector shall 
 have and exercise all powers and authority and be subject to all 
 the duties and limitations which the statutes impose upon or require 
 of the Milk Inspector, and shall perform such other duties as may 
 be imposed by the Common Council. He shall receive such com- 
 pensation as the Common Council shall from time to time determine. 
 
 SEC. 37. Annual Report. Said Milk Inspector shall annually 
 on or before the third Wednesday in April, present a report in 
 writing to the Mayor and Common Council, stating the number of 
 seizures made by him, the places from which, and the persons 
 from whom the seizures were made, the character of the seizures, 
 the number of samples taken for the purpose of analysis, the result 
 of such analysis made and the number and result of all prosecutions.
 
 46 CHAPTERS XI & XII. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 38. Registration of Dealers. No person shall sell milk 
 within the limits of said city unless he shall have registered his 
 name, residence and number in a book kept for that purpose at 
 the office of the Clerk of said City. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 INCUMBRANCES ON RAILROAD TRACKS. 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Highway Not to be Blocked. No locomotive en- 
 gine, car or train of cars shall be permitted to remain within the 
 city limits, standing across any public street or highway, for any 
 period of time longer than five minutes. 
 
 SEC. 2. Penalty. Every person or corporation using or having 
 charge of such locomotive engine, car or train of cars, who shall 
 be guilty of the breach of any requirement of this ordinance, shall 
 be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall forfeit and pay, for each 
 offence, the sum of fifty dollars, for the use of said city. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 JURORS. 
 Be it Ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Penalty. Every juror of said city, who, being 
 legally summoned to serve as a juryman at the City Court in said 
 city, shall refuse or neglect to attend and perform such service 
 agreeably to such summons, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of five 
 dollars to the City Treasurer, unless the Court shall, on hearing 
 his reasons for non-attendance, judge the same to be sufficient.
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 47 
 
 MEETINGS OF THE CITY AND COMMON COUNCIL. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 MEETINGS OF THE CITY AND COMMON COUNCIL. 
 
 Be it Ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Stated Meetings. There shall be stated monthly 
 meetings of the Common Council, at the Common Council room 
 in said city, for the transaction of all legal business, on the third 
 Wednesday evening of each month, and a stated annual meeting 
 for the choice of jurors, on the third Wednesday in June. 
 
 SEC. 2. Calling of City and Council Meetings. The Mayor, 
 or in case of his absence or disability, the President pro tern, of 
 the Common Council may at any time, and when thereunto in- 
 structed by the Common Council, shall call a city meeting ; and 
 may at any time, and upon the request in writing of any three 
 Aldermen and four Councilmen, shall, without delay, call a meet- 
 ing of the Common Council, which meeting shall be called by 
 issuing a warrant to the sheriff, or any suitable person named 
 therein, requiring him to notify the electors of said city, or the 
 members of the Common Council, as the case may be, that such 
 meeting will be held at the time and place in such warrant desig- 
 nated. All warrants, in the case of city meetings, shall specify 
 the object thereof, and shall be served at least three days before 
 the day when such meeting is to be held, by causing a true and 
 attested copy thereof to be published in at least one newspaper 
 published in said city, and by posting a like copy upon the public 
 sign-post therein; and shall be forthwith returned with proper in- 
 dorsement to the City Clerk, and be by him recorded; and all 
 warrants for meetings of the Common Council, shall be served by 
 reading the same in the hearing of each member, or by leaving a 
 copy thereof at his usual place of abode; and shall be forthwith 
 returned with a proper indorsement, to the City Clerk, and be by 
 him recorded.
 
 48 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 3. Time of Commencement. All stated meetings of the 
 Common Council and all special meetings thereof, when not other- 
 wise provided in the warning, shall commence at eight o'clock in 
 the evening. 
 
 SEC. 4. Keeping Records. The City Clerk shall make and 
 keep true records, properly indexed, of all proceedings of said 
 city and Common Council, shall be clerk of all committees and 
 keep the books of the street department. 
 
 SEC. 5. Duties of Assistant City Clerk. It shall be the duty 
 of the Assistant City Clerk, in addition to his duties as prescribed 
 in the charter, to assist the City Clerk at the meetings of the Com- 
 mon Council and in arranging a copy of the minutes for the 
 printer the following day and otherwise assist the City Clerk when 
 called upon by him. 
 
 CHAPTER XIY. 
 
 NUISANCE. 
 
 Be it Ordained by the Common Council of the City of New 
 Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Nuisances ; Penalty. The following acts when 
 committed within said city are declared to be acts of nuisance, 
 to wit : 
 
 Keeping or maintaining swine or pig pens shall not be allowed 
 within the city limits except by permission of the Board of Health, 
 nor shall any such permit be granted unless said swine or pig pen 
 is over one hundred feet from any dwelling house or well. 
 
 Building any hennery or keeping hens or any kinds of fowls in 
 any coop, building, or enclosure within forty feet of any street line 
 or dwelling house or public building.
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 49 
 
 NUISANCE. 
 
 Causing or permitting the accumulation, or the placing in any 
 building, outhouse, yard, or enclosure, of any dung, filth, stable 
 bedding, offal, wash, dirty water, or brine which shall become 
 offensive to any person ; setting up or continuing any privy in 
 such place or manner that the same shall become unwholesome or 
 offensive to any person. 
 
 Making or maintaining any deposit of manure, decaying vegeta- 
 bles, meat, fish, offal, garbage or any other decaying substances, 
 except in an enclosed basement, box cellar or vault within a less 
 distance than fifty feet from any dwelling house, shop, factory or 
 public building ; depositing or maintaining a deposit of stable bed- 
 ding, outside of any barn or stable within a less distance than fifty 
 feet from any dwelling house, shop, factory, or public building. 
 
 Causing or permitting wash or dirty water to pass from yards of 
 houses, through drains or otherwise, into any street, or upon. 
 
 Depositing or placing, or causing to be deposited or placed in 
 rear of any business block or tenement house or upon or about any 
 street, sidewalk, gutter, public park, stream, pond or fountain in 
 said city, any offal, dead animal, animal matter, decaying vegeta- 
 ble matter, garbage, loose papers, handbills, posters, programs, 
 notices, advertising cards, dirt (including store, house, office or 
 saloon sweepings), ashes or rubbish of any kind whatever, or con- 
 veying through any streets thereof any offal, or dead animal, unless 
 covered from sight. 
 
 Fastening any animal to any tree, or leaving any animal so that 
 any tree in said city shall be injured by such animal. 
 
 Erecting, setting up, or continuing upon any street or highway, 
 or any portion of the same, any building, fence, or gate. 
 
 Causing or permitting any wagon, cart or other vehicle, or any 
 animal, to remain standing upon any crosswalk or sidewalk in said 
 city, or riding, driving or leading any horse or other animal upon 
 any sidewalk thereof, riding or driving any horse in harness, or 
 otherwise, upon, over or across any sidewalk at a gait faster than 
 a walk.
 
 50 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 The driving with any sled, sledge or sleigh, in or through any 
 street or highway of said city without a bell or bells attached to 
 such sled, sledge or sleigh, or to the horse or horses drawing the 
 same. 
 
 Injuring, defacing, or soiling any public or private building, 
 fence or enclosure ; injuring any tree, shrub, plant, or other vege- 
 table production in the streets or in any public or private enclos- 
 ures in said city. 
 
 Tramping upon the grounds or grass outside the regular walks 
 in the public parks of the city, or injuring any of the trees, plants, 
 flowers or shrubbery therein, or committing any nuisance in or 
 about said parks. 
 
 Making any loud or boisterous noise in the night season in any 
 street, building, or other place, whereby any person is disturbed. 
 
 Ringing hand-bells in any street of said city, to advertise auc- 
 tion or other sales. 
 
 Trespassing in any garden or yard in said city. 
 
 Placing any mortar bed, or placing or continuing the deposit of 
 any building material in any street in said city without a license 
 from the Common Council or committee thereof. 
 
 Racing or trying the speed of horses upon any street in said 
 city. 
 
 Carrying on of any trade or business upon the sidewalks or 
 streets, without license therefor ; resisting, molesting, or disturb- 
 ing any executive or police officer or Street Commissioner of said 
 city while discharging his duty. 
 
 Placing any sign across any sidewalk without permission from 
 the Common Council. 
 
 Assembling idly and remaining in crowds upon any footway, 
 sidewalk, or crosswalk in any street, or in any public park of said 
 city, or before any church or public building ; so assembling to 
 the number of three or more persons, and refusing to disperse 
 when commanded so to do by a police officer, special constable,
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 51 
 
 NUISANCE. 
 
 or other officer of said city ; or reassembling in like manner with 
 the same or other persons upon the same day or evening after 
 having been commanded to disperse. 
 
 Sliding down hill upon sleds or otherwise, upon any public 
 street. 
 
 Throwing or playing with any ball upon any public street. 
 
 Shooting with sling or air guns within the city limits. 
 
 Accumulating in or near any building, shavings, hay, husk, 
 straw, or other combustible materials in such a manner as to en- 
 danger property from fire, or depositing or keeping hay, straw, 
 husk, or other combustible materials in any building occupied 
 wholly or in part as a dwelling. 
 
 And any person doing or committing any of said acts, which are 
 misdemeanors under the Charter, or who shall knowingly aid or 
 assist in the commission of the same, shall be fined not more than 
 twenty ($20.00) dollars nor less than five ($5.00) dollars for each 
 offence, and each day's continuance of any continuing nuisance 
 herein before mentioned, shall constitute a separate and distinct 
 offence, and any person doing or committing any of said acts, 
 which are not misdemeanors under the Charter, or who shall 
 knowingly aid or assist in the commission of the same, shall forfeit 
 and pay a penalty of not more than twenty ($20.00) dollars and 
 not less than five ($5.00) dollars for each offence, and each day's 
 continuance of any continuing nuisance herein before mentioned, 
 shall constitute a separate and distinct offence. 
 
 SEC. 2. Burial bf Dead Animals; Penalty. Any animal that 
 shall die or be found dead in said city, except when such animal 
 shall be killed for food, shall be properly buried by the owner 
 thereof upon notice by the police, and when such owner is not 
 known, or, being notified as aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse to 
 bury said animal, the same shall be buried by the police at the ex- 
 pense of the city ; and any person so neglecting or refusing shall 
 forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than five nor more than twenty 
 dollars.
 
 52 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 3. Transportation of Night Soil ; Penalty. No person, 
 without the consent of the Health Committee, shall convey the 
 contents of any privy vault, or cesspool, through any street of said 
 city, except in a tight box, and between the first day of November 
 and the first day of April then next succeeding, and between the 
 hours of nine and five o'clock, in the night season ; and any per- 
 son so offending shall forfeit and pay a penalty of five dollars for 
 each offence. 
 
 SEC. 4. Privies and Cesspools. No person without the consent 
 of the Health Committee, shall build or maintain any privy or 
 cesspool in said city within forty feet of any well, or twenty-five 
 feet of any street line, dwelling house, shop, factory, or public 
 building, nor without leaving at least two feet of solid earth or 
 mason work laid in cement between such privy or cesspool and the 
 lot adjoining. 
 
 SEC. 5. Privies and Privy Vaults. No privy shall hereafter 
 be erected or suffer to remain in said city, unless connected with 
 some public sewer, or unless kept clean by means of fresh earth or 
 other disinfectant, or without having a vault under the same of the 
 depth of at least six feet of the full length and width of such privy, 
 and closed up all sides ; nor shall said vault be suffered to be at 
 any time filled within three feet of the general surface of the ground 
 around such privy ; and any person offending against the pro- 
 visions of this section, and of section fourth of this ordinance, 
 shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than five or more than 
 twenty dollars for each offence, and each week's continuance thereof 
 shall be deemed a separate offence. 
 
 SEC. 6. Sewer Connections. All persons who own or occupy 
 any land fronting a street through which a sewer is or shall be 
 built, shall connect all their sink drains, water closets and privies 
 on said land with such sewer, and no cesspool shall be built or 
 maintained on said land ; and any person offending against the 
 provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less 
 than five nor more than twenty dollars for each offence, and each 
 week's continuance thereof shall be deemed a separate offence.
 
 CHAPTER XV. 53 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New 
 Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Publication. Every ordinance of said city shall be 
 once published in a newspaper in said city. 
 
 SEC. 2. When Operative. No ordinance shall be valid and 
 operative until it has been once so published. 
 
 SEC. 3. Orders and Notices. All orders and notices requiring 
 publication by the City Charter, and all orders and notices pub- 
 lished by order of the Street Commissioner or any other city offi- 
 cer, in any newspaper, shall not be published more than once in 
 such paper, except by special order of the Common Council. 
 
 SEC. 4. To be Printed in Annual Reports. All new ordinances 
 and amendments of ordinances shall be printed with the annual 
 reports of the Mayor and several departments. 
 
 SEC. 5. Repeal of Former Ordinances. All the ordinances of 
 said city in force on the 15th day of July, 1896, shall hereby, 
 whenever these ordinances go into effect and become operative, 
 viz.: on the first day of August, 1896, be repealed except the ordi- 
 nances on streets and bicycles, but no offence committed and no 
 liability, penalty, or forfeiture heretofore incurred, and no prose- 
 cution or suit pending, shall be affected, and no ordinance hereto- 
 fore repealed, shall be revived by this repeal.
 
 54 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 POLICE. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New 
 Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Police Force. There shall be and hereby is established 
 a police force of said city, which shall consist of a Chief of Police, 
 a Captain of Police, and not more than sixteen active policemen, 
 and not less than ten or more than fifty supernumerary policemen. 
 
 SEC. 2. Chief of Police. It shall be the duty of the Chief of 
 Police to superintend, under the direction of the Police Commis- 
 sioners of said city, the entire police force ; to inform himself of 
 the fidelity and efficiency of every member thereof ; to have charge 
 of and be responsible for the condition of the station house and its 
 furniture ; to supply the same with lights and fuel, and the inmates, 
 if any, with necessary food, at the expense of said city ; to attend 
 on the Police Court ; to receive from members of said force all 
 complaints of violations of the public law or the city ordinances, 
 and see that the same are prosecuted ; to report all cases requiring 
 a written complaint to the Prosecuting Attorney or the Assistant 
 City Attorney ; to designate a supernumerary policeman to take 
 the place of any active policeman absent from duty ; to call into 
 active service the supernumerary police or any portion of the same, 
 when authorized thereto by the Mayor, acting Mayor or the Police 
 Commissioners ; to be present at all fires in said city and assist 
 thereat in the preservation of order and the protection of life and 
 property, and in all legal ways to guard the peace of said city, 
 
 SEC. 3. Expenditures to be Approved ; Witness Fees, etc. It 
 shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to make out monthly and 
 present to the Judge of the Police Court a detailed statement of all 
 moneys expended by him for the department. Said statement
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 55 
 
 POLICE. 
 
 must be approved by the said Judge of the Police Court before 
 the Clerk of the Court shall be authorized to draw an order or 
 pay the amount of the statement. And said Clerk of the Court 
 shall be responsible to said Court for the amount of any statement 
 paid by him which has not been approved by the said Judge of 
 the Police Court. The Clerk of said Court shall not be authorized 
 to pay out any moneys except for witness fees and the fees of the 
 Prosecuting Attorney and the Assistant Attorney, nor to contract 
 any bills except by order of the Judge of the Police Court. 
 
 SEC. 4. Captain of Police. In case of the absence from said 
 city of the Chief of Police or his inability to discharge the duties 
 required of him by this ordinance, the Captain of Police shall, 
 during such absence or inability, be Acting Chief of Police. 
 
 SEC. 5. Policemen, Their Duties. It shall be the duty of 
 Policemen to obey all lawful orders and directions of the Mayor, 
 Police Commissioners and Chief of Police ; to guard the city day 
 and night ; to report to the Chief of Police all violations of the 
 laws of the State, and ordinances of said city, all suspicious per- 
 sons, all houses of ill-fame, all gaming houses, all disorderly and 
 suspicious places of resort ; to preserve the public peace ; to se- 
 cure the detection, arrest and conviction of offenders, and render 
 all possible assistance to the ministers of the law ; to be present 
 and on duty at all fires in said city, when not otherwise specially 
 employed ; to serve processes of the Police Court and notices or- 
 dered by the Common Council ; to direct strangers the nearest 
 way to their places of destination, to keep open and free from ob- 
 struction by vehicles, crowds, or groups of persons, or other things, 
 the streets, sidewalks, and public places of said city ; and in gen : 
 eral to perform the duties assigned them in these ordinances, and 
 do all in their power to preserve the peace and protect life and 
 property. 
 
 SEC. 6. - Badges. The Chief of Police and other members of 
 the police force shall wear, when on duty, their distinguishing 
 badges, as prescribed by the Police Commissioners.
 
 56 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 7. To Assign Fees to the City. No fee or compensation, 
 other than the regular pay, shall be charged or received by any 
 member of the Police force, but each member shall, before enter- 
 ing upon the discharge of the duties of his office, execute in writ- 
 ing an assignment to the Treasurer of said city of all his interests 
 in any fees which may be taxed in his favor in the Police or City 
 Court in causes in which said city is a party, and no member of 
 the force shall be entitled to receive any salary for any services 
 rendered by him, until such assignment shall have been executed 
 to the satisfaction of the Police Commissioners, and lodged on file 
 in the office of the City Clerk ; nor shall any member of the force 
 receive any present or reward for services rendered, or to be ren- 
 dered, by him unless with the consent of the Common Council. 
 
 SEC. 8. Policemen's Qualifications. Every member of the Po- 
 lice force, shall, at the time of his appointment, be a citizen of the 
 United States and an elector in said city, and able to speak, read, 
 and write the English language, and shall before entering upon the 
 discharge of the duties of his office, make oath or affirmation, be- 
 fore the City Clerk that he will support the Constitution of the 
 United States and of the State of Connecticut, and will faithfully 
 discharge the duties of his office, and shall cause a certificate of 
 such oath or affirmation to be lodged with the City Clerk. 
 
 SEC. 9. Pay of Police. The pay of Chief of Police shall be 
 one thousand one hundred dollars per year. The pay of the Cap- 
 tain of the police shall be one thousand dollars per year, and the 
 pay of the active policemen nine hundred dollars per year, and at 
 the same rate for each supernumerary for each day of actual ser- 
 vice, except the supernumeraries detailed for fire police duty, who 
 shall be paid as stated in section 15 of this chapter. 
 
 SEC. 10. Cause for Preferment of Charges. The wilful breach 
 of any law of this State, or ordinance of said city, neglect of duty, 
 inefficiency, insubordination, or other disgraceful or improper 
 conduct which will bring discredit on the police force or impair its
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 57 
 
 POLICE. 
 
 usefulness, shall be considered sufficient cause for the preferment 
 of charges against the officer so offending, under the provisions of 
 the charter of said city. 
 
 SEC. ii. Policemen, Conduct of. Every member of the force 
 who shall, while on duty, enter any tippling, or bawdy, or other- 
 wise disorderly house, unless to suppress disturbance, or upon the 
 order of his superior officer, or shall become intoxicated, or shall 
 interfere in any caucus or primary election, or shall attempt, either 
 directly or indirectly, to influence any elector in the exercise of 
 his right of voting, or shall attend to any poll or voting place unless 
 so directed by his superior officer, shall be removed from his place 
 in said department, and be ineligible to reappointment for the term 
 of one year. 
 
 SEC. 12. Acting as Town Officer or Engaging in Private Busi- 
 ness. Any policeman who shall act as a Constable of the town of 
 New Britain, or who shall act as any other officer of said town, in 
 any capacity in which he is entitled to receive salary, fees, or 
 emoluments, or who shall engage in any private business interfer- 
 ing at all with his duties as a policeman, shall be deemed to 
 have tendered his resignation as a policeman, and the same shall 
 be accepted by the Police Commissioners and his place as police- 
 man be filled or declared vacant. 
 
 SEC. 13. Street Lights and Side Walks. It shall be the duty 
 of every policeman to report to the Chief, on blanks provided for 
 the purpose, each morning whether or not the electric or naptha 
 lamps on his beat were giving proper light during such time as the 
 light should be in running order. In case any light should be out 
 for any length of time, it shall be the duty of the patrolman on 
 that beat to report the same to the Chief as much in detail as may 
 be required. It shall also be the duty of each patrolman to report 
 to the Chief on blanks provided for that purpose the names of all 
 property holders whose walks have not been cleaned of snow, in 
 accordance with the ordinance entitled " Streets." It shall be the 
 duty of the Chief of Police to hand a list of such names to the 
 Prosecuting Attorney.
 
 58 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 14. Janitor for City Building. The Police Commissioners 
 shall have full charge and care of the city building on Commercial 
 street, and may appoint a janitor for the same, whose salary shall 
 be fixed by the Common Council and paid from the general funds 
 of the city. 
 
 SEC. 15. Attendance at Fires. The Police Commissioners shall 
 detail from among the members of the supernumerary police, a 
 number of not less than five for such a time as may be deemed 
 sufficient and best, who shall receive pay while on this special 
 duty at the rate of sixty cents for the first hour and forty cents per 
 hour for such other time as they shall be needed ; the duty of said 
 special detail shall be to attend all fires, answer every alarm, and 
 under the direction of the Chief of Police, or other officer in com- 
 mand, to guard the approaches to any building or buildings on 
 fire with ropes or other apparatus, and unless ordered by the Chief 
 of Police or other officer in command, not to permit within the 
 lines any person not a member of the Fire and Police Departments; 
 the Mayor, Fire and Police Commissioners, and owners of the 
 property excepted and to perform such other duties as may be 
 required of them by the Chief of Police or other officer in com- 
 mand ; and any person who shall force his way within such lines 
 against the order of such police, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 
 and subject to instant arrest, and to such fine not exceeding twenty 
 dollars as may be imposed by the police court. 
 
 All ordinances inconsistent with the foregoing are hereby repealed.
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 59 
 
 PUBLIC CONVEYANCES. 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 PUBLIC CONVEYANCES. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Public Carriages. Every hack, omnibus, cab, 
 coach, barouche, or other vehicle on wheels or on runners and 
 drawn by one or more animals, which shall be used in said city for 
 carrying persons for hire, shall be deemed a public carriage within 
 the meaning of this ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 2. How Licensed. No public carriages shall be used 
 within the limits of said city unless the same shall be duly licensed 
 by the City Clerk, and every such license shall be in writing, and 
 expire on the first Monday in May succeeding its date, and shall 
 be recorded before being issued by the City Clerk in a book kept 
 for that purpose. Every license issued shall be countersigned by 
 the Chief of Police. 
 
 SEC. 3. License Fees. No public carriage shall be licensed as 
 aforesaid until the owner thereof shall have paid the clerk of said 
 city, license fee, as follows, namely : For each public carriage, or 
 other vehicle drawn by two or more horses or other animals, two 
 dollars ; drawn by one animal, one dollar ; and the receipt of the 
 City Clerk for the same shall be filed with the Chief of Police, and 
 shall be sufficient evidence of the payment of the aforesaid fee. 
 
 SEC. 4. Rate of Fares. The rate of fares to be charged by the 
 proprietors or drivers of public carriages shall not exceed the 
 following : 
 For Carrying One Passenger any distance within the limits 
 
 of said city, 250 
 
 For Carrying One Passenger with One Trunk, - 5oc 
 
 Two Passengers, - SOG 
 
 Two Passengers with One or Two Trunks, 75c 
 
 Three Passengers, - 75c
 
 60 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 Three Passengers with Two or Three Trunks, $1.00 
 
 Four Passengers, - - i.oo 
 
 and with One or Two Trunks, The Same. 
 
 Four Passengers, with Three or Four Trunks, - - i. 2 5 
 
 For Carrying Passengers a greater distance than within the 
 
 limits of the city, for each passenger or trunk, 2$c extra 
 
 For carrying Children between the ages of Four and Twelve 
 
 Years, one-half of the above rates only shall be charged ; 
 
 and not over 15 cents shall be charged for each and 
 
 every trunk exceeding the number mentioned above. 
 For the Use of a Public Carriage by the hour, for the first 
 
 hour $2.00, and at the rate of $1.00 per hour after the 
 
 first hour until 12 o'clock midnight, and one dollar per 
 
 hour extra thereafter until 6 o'clock a.m. 
 
 For going to and from funerals, $3.00 
 
 Attending upon Weddings, t 3.00 
 
 To and from Receptions, Dances, etc. until i a.m. - - 2.00 
 And until two o'clock' and after, - 3.00 
 
 To and from Christenings, 2.00 
 
 SEC. 5. Owner's Name, etc. The name of the owner, the num- 
 ber of the license and the rates of fare, as prescribed by this ordi- 
 nance, shall be conspicuously exhibited upon a card placed upon 
 the inside of each public carriage, and the number of said license 
 shall also be fastened or painted conspicuously upon the lamps 
 upon each side of said vehicle. 
 
 SEC. 6. Penalty. Every person, whether the owner or driver 
 of a public carriage or other vehicle, who shall violate any of the 
 provisions of the preceding sections of this ordinance, shall forfeit 
 and pay for each offense a penalty of not less than five nor more 
 than twenty-five dollars. 
 
 SEC. 7. Waiting Stand. No hack, barouche, cab, omnibus, coach, 
 or other vehicle on wheels or on runners, which shall be used in 
 said city for hire, and no baggage wagon, express wagon, cart, truck
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 61 
 
 SALARIES AND BONDS. 
 
 or dray, or other vehicle on wheels or runners, which shall be used 
 or employed in said city for the conveyance of baggage, goods, mer- 
 chandise, wares, freights, or anything whatever for hire or for the 
 sale thereof, shall stand at any place in said city for such purpose 
 or waiting for employment except on the west side of the public 
 park of the city in such order or manner as the Chief of Police 
 may prescribe. 
 
 SEC. 8. Penalty. Any person who shall violate the provisions 
 of section seven of this ordinance shall forfeit and pay a penalty 
 of not less than one dollar and not more than five dollars for each 
 offence. 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 SALARIES AND BONDS. 
 
 Be it Ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Salaries. The salaries and compensations of the 
 several officers and employees of the city shall be as follows, to wit: 
 
 The Mayor, - $ 600.00 per annum 
 
 The salary and compensation of the City 
 
 Clerk shall be fifteen hundred dollars per 
 
 annum, - - 1,500.00 " 
 
 The salary and compensation of the Assistant 
 
 City Clerk shall be one hundred dollars per 
 
 annum, - 100.00 " 
 
 The salary and compensation of the City 
 
 Auditor shall be four hundred dollars per 
 
 annum, - 400.00 " 
 
 The Treasurer, - 100.00 " 
 
 The Judge of the Police Court, - 1,000.00 "
 
 62 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 Assistant Judge of the Police Court, - 
 
 Clerk of the Police Court, - 
 
 Corporation Counsel, 
 
 Prosecuting Attorney, 
 
 Assistant City Attorney, 
 
 City Sheriff, 
 
 City Health Officer, 
 
 Sanitary Inspector, 
 
 City Rate Maker, 
 
 Street Commissioner, 
 
 And $200.00 per annum for use of his 
 team, said #200.00 to be taken from 
 the appropriation for streets and pay- 
 able quarterly. 
 
 The salary and compensation of the city sur- 
 veyor shall be two thousand dollars per 
 annum, - 
 
 The salary and compensation of the chair- 
 man of the board of Fire Commissioners 
 shall be two hundred dollars per annum, 
 Chairman of board of Water Commissioners, 
 Other members of board fees per meet- 
 ing, $3.00. 
 
 Chairman of Street Committee, - 
 Members of board of Street Commissioners 
 
 (each) - 
 
 Members of board of Subway Commission- 
 ers (each) 
 
 Members of the board of Sewer Commis- 
 sioners, fees per meeting, $3.00. 
 Clerk of the board of Water Commissioners, 
 Clerk of the board of Street Commissioners, 
 Clerk of the board of Sewer Commissioners, 
 Clerk of the board of Fire Commissioners, 
 
 250.00 per annum 
 
 500.00 " 
 
 1,500.00 " 
 
 800.00 " 
 
 275.00 " 
 
 225.00 " 
 
 500.00 " 
 
 600.00 " 
 
 225.00 " 
 
 1,200.00 " 
 
 2,000.00 
 
 200.00 
 1,000.00 
 
 300.00 
 150.00 
 
 800.00 
 400.00 
 300.00 
 100.00
 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 SALARIES AND BONDS. 
 
 Clerk of the board of Police Commissioners, 100.00 per annum 
 Clerk of board of Subway Commissioners, 50.00 " 
 
 Sealer of Weights and Measures, fees 
 
 Superintendent of Electrical Department, 950.00 " 
 
 Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, - 450.00 " 
 Assistant Engineer of the Fire Department, 350.00 " 
 Engineer of each steam fire engine, - 300.00 " 
 
 Stoker of each steam fire engine, 220.00 " 
 
 Foremen of hose companies, 250.00 " 
 
 Assistant Foremen of hose companies, 225.00 " 
 
 Members of hose companies (each) - 200.00 " 
 
 Permanent drivers, - 800.00 " 
 
 Chief of Police, i, 100.00 " 
 
 Captain of Police, - 1,000.00 " 
 
 Policemen (each) 900.00 " 
 
 The Collector of Taxes, one per cent, on the amount of taxes 
 collected, and three-fourths of .one per cent, on the amount of 
 street, sewer and stream assessments collected. 
 
 SEC. 2 - Pay Rolls. The City Auditor shall draw his order 
 semi-monthly on the City Treasurer for the payment of each regu- 
 lar member of the Police Force and each permanent driver of the 
 Fire Department, and weekly for the payment of each laborer in 
 the employment of the Street, Subway and Health Departments of 
 said city, and monthly for each supernumerary member of the 
 Police Force and all city officers, and quarterly for each member 
 of the Fire Detail of the Police Force ; provided that the bills or 
 pay rolls presented to the Auditor by the said Police Officers, Per- 
 manent Drivers, employees of the Street, Subway and Health De- 
 partments and City Officers, for their respective salaries or wages 
 shall each be separately approved by the Mayor, he shall then de- 
 liver the above orders to the City Clerk, whose duty it shall be to 
 disburse the same and obtain receipts therefor. 
 
 SEC. 3. Bonds of City Officers. All bonds of city officers shall 
 be payable in said city to the Mayor and his successors in office,
 
 64 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 and shall be executed by the principal, and when not otherwise 
 provided, two sufficient sureties to the approbation of the Mayor 
 and four Aldermen ; such bond shall be conditioned on the faith- 
 ful performance by the principal of all his official duties due to 
 said city by virtue of his appointment, and on his saving the city 
 harmless from all loss, cost or damage, by reason of his malfeas- 
 ance in office, and on his rendering a true account of all his money 
 dealings for, in behalf of, and with said city, and on his just and 
 true payment to the City Treasurer of all moneys in his hands at 
 any time as an officer or agent of said city for and during the en- 
 tire period for which he shall remain in his office by appointment 
 or election. Such bonds shall be given before such officer shall 
 enter upon his official duties, and in case of the refusal or neglect 
 of such officer to give such bonds, his office shall be deemed vacant. 
 
 SEC. 4. Penalties of the Bond. The penalties of the bond re- 
 quired of the several city officers shall be respectively as follows : 
 Of the City Clerk, three thousand dollars ; of the City Treasurer, 
 fifteen thousand dollars ; of the City Auditor, three thousand dol- 
 lars ; of the City Collector, twenty thousand dollars ; of the City 
 Sheriff, two thousand dollars ; of the clerk of the city and police 
 courts, one thousand dollars ; of the City Surveyor, five thousand 
 dollars ; of the Street Commissioner, two thousand dollars ; of the 
 chairman of the board of Water Commissioners, fifteen thousand 
 dollars, and of the other members of said board, five hundred dol- 
 lars each ; of the Sewer Commissioners, three thousand dollars 
 each ; of the chairman of the board of Fire Commissioners, two 
 thousand five hundred dollars ; of the chairman of the board of 
 Police Commissioners, one thousand dollars ; and of the Subway 
 Commissioners, two thousand dollars each. 
 
 SEC. 5. Di*bursir>g Officers and Committees Every committee 
 and every c'ty officer, in whose hands money may be placed for 
 disbursement, shall, unless otherwise provided in these ordinances, 
 first give bonds to said city for the faithful disbursement of the 
 same in such sums as the Mayor and Aldermen shall require.
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 65 
 
 SEWERS. 
 
 SEC. 6. Surety Bonds Required ; Duties of Mayor. No private 
 individual or individuals shall hereafter be accepted as sureties on 
 the bonds of city officials. All such officials required by the char- 
 ter or ordinances of this city to furnish bords shall obtain as sureties 
 some responsible surety company. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Mayor to see that the oath of office 
 shall not be administered to any city official required by the char- 
 ter or ordinances to furnish a bond, until such surety bond shall 
 be filed with the said Mayor, and the proper approval of the neces- 
 sary number of aldermen and the approval of the Mayor with the 
 date and time of filing said bond shall be endorsed thereon. It 
 shall be the further duty of the Mayor to cause all such bonds with 
 all endorsements thereon to be recorded at length by the City 
 Clerk, immediately upon the filing of the same on the records of 
 the city. The Mayor shall at all times be responsible for the safe 
 keeping of all such bonds. All ordinances or parts of ordinances 
 inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 SEWERS. 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Sewer Commissioners, Compensation. Each one of 
 the board of Sewer Commissioners shall receive three dollars for 
 each day of actual employment in the duties of his office, and shall 
 report monthly to the Common Council the number of days of 
 said employment during the previous month. 
 
 SEC. 2. To Give Bonds. Each member of the board of Sewer 
 Commissioners shall give bond, with at least one sufficient surety, 
 in the sum of three thousand dollars, for the faithful performance 
 of his duty.
 
 66 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 3. To Keep Record and Report. Said board of Sewer 
 Commissioners shall keep record of their official doings, and report 
 the same annually to the Common Council, at its first meeting in 
 April. 
 
 SEC. 4. Permission for Sewer Connections. No person or cor- 
 poration shall make any connection of sewers or drains with any 
 public sewers without written permission, signed by a majority of 
 the members of the Board of Sewer Commissioners. And any per- 
 son offending against the provisions of this section shall forfeit and 
 pay to the city a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 5. Steam in Sewers. No person or corporation shall al- 
 low steam from the premises owned and occupied by them to enter 
 any public sewer, nor shall they without the consent of the Com- 
 mon Council first obtained, allow air to be forced from such prem- 
 ises into any sewer, by means of a blower or otherwise, and any 
 person offending against the provisions of this section shall forfeit 
 and pay to the city a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense, and 
 each week's continued violation shall constitute a separate offence. 
 
 SEC. 6. Repair and Cleaning of Sewers; Coat nf New Sewers It 
 shall be the duty of the board of Sewer Commissioners to supervise 
 and direct the repair and cleaning of all sewers and their appur- 
 tenances whenever the same shall be necessary, and to keep the 
 same properly cleaned and repaired, except the cleaning of the 
 catch basins and receivers, and also to execute and perform all 
 orders and directions of the Common Council in relation to changes 
 in the sewer department. 
 
 All recommendations of the Sewer Commissioners to the Council 
 in regard to the building of new sewers shall contain a careful 
 estimate of the cost of construction as well as of the amount of 
 probable assessment. 
 
 SEC. 7. Payment of Bills. The bills for the work ordered to 
 be performed by the board of Sewer Commissioners in the forego 
 ing section, when approved by a majority of the board, shall be
 
 CHAPTER XX. 67 
 
 STOPPAGE OF CARS AND VEHICLES IN CASE OF 
 EMERGENCY. 
 
 presented to the Common Council, and ordered paid from the 
 funds which may be appropriated for the sewer department for that 
 purpose. 
 
 SEC. 8. Connections with Sewer. Whenever a petition for per- 
 mission to connect property with a sewer in an adjacent street shall 
 be referred to the board of Sewer Commissioners with power, no 
 permit shall be issued for such connection until the assessment for 
 the same shall have been levied by the board of Street Commis- 
 sioners and by them reported to the Common Council. 
 
 SEC. 9. Reports, Map, etc. Upon the completion of any sewer 
 ordered by the Common Council the board of Sewer Commission- 
 ers shall make a report of the same to the Common Council and 
 accompany said report with all necessary maps, profiles, etc., 
 necessary for the laying of sewer assessments. 
 
 SEC. 10. Digging Up Streets The Sewer Commissioners be- 
 fore granting permits to property owners to connect their premises 
 with sewer mains shall require such property owners to show a per- 
 mit to dig up the street for that purpose, signed by the Street 
 Commissioner. 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 STOPPAGE OF CARS AND VEHICLES IN CASE OF 
 EMERGENCY. 
 
 Be it Ordained by the Common Council of the City of New 
 Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Powers of Mayor. Whenever in the opinion of the 
 Mayor of the city an emergency arises calling for the cessation of 
 the running of cars and other vehicles through any of the streets 
 of the city the Mayor may issue an order to all parties concerned 
 over his hand as Mayor and the City Seal ordering the cessation
 
 68 CHAPTER XXI. , 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 of such traffic during such period as he shall deem the emergency 
 requires, and upon such notice as he shall deem reasonable. It 
 shall be the duty of all corporations and persons to strictly con- 
 form to and obey such order. It shall be the duty of the Chief of 
 Police, upon being notified of the issuing of such order to strictly 
 enforce the same. 
 
 SEC. 2. Penalty, Any person violating any of the provisions of 
 this ordinance shall forfeit and pay to the City of New Britain the 
 sum of twenty-five ($25) dollars for each offense. 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 STREETS. 
 Be it Ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Street Commissioners, Pay of. Each member of 
 the board of Street Commissioners shall receive a salary of one 
 hundred and fifty (#150.00) dollars per year in full for all his ser- 
 vices as a member of such board. 
 
 SEC. 2. Clerk, Duties and Compensation. The board of Street 
 Commissioners shall appoint a clerk whose salary shall be four 
 hundred dollars ($400.00) per annum. It shall be the duty of 
 said clerk to keep a record of the doings of said board in a book 
 provided for that purpose ; and when said board has completed an 
 assessment of damages and benefits occasioned by any public im- 
 provement submitted to said board, to make a written report to 
 the city clerk, giving the amounts of such assessments and the 
 names of the parties for and against whom the assessments are 
 made, accompanied also with a description of the real estate upon 
 account of which said assessments have severally been made. It 
 shall be the duty of the City Clerk to keep said report on file in 
 his office for the purpose of filing liens upon the property described 
 therein, for the security of amounts due the city on account of 
 such assessments.
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 69 
 
 STREETS. 
 
 SEC. 3. Notice, How Given. Before making any assessment 
 of damages and benefits said board of Street Commissioners shall 
 give written notice to the parties interested of the time and place 
 when and where it will meet to hear them, which notice, as to resi- 
 dents of said city, shall be served by the city sheriff or other in- 
 different person reading the same in the hearing of each party to 
 be notified, or by leaving a copy thereof with said party or at said 
 party's usual place of abode, at least three days before the date of 
 such hearing ; and which notice as to non-residents shall be served 
 by the city sheriff or other indifferent person by mailing, by regis- 
 tered mail, post paid, at least one week before said hearing, a copy 
 of said notice to the last known address of such non-resident. 
 
 SEC. 4. Street Commissioner, Election and Bond. There shall 
 be an officer appointed for said city to be called the Street Com- 
 missioner, who shall hereafter be elected annually in the month of 
 April, after the third Tuesday thereof (in 1896, however, at the 
 convenience of the Common Council, to hold his office until May 
 i, 1897), who shall be sworn to a faithful discharge of his duty, 
 and who shall give bond, with sufficient sureties in the sum of 
 three thousand dollars, and shall receive a salary at the rate of 
 twelve hundred dollars per annum, and $200.00 per annum for the 
 use of his team. Said $200.00 to be taken from the Appropriation 
 for Streets and payable quarterly. 
 
 SEC. 5. Duties of Street Commissioner. It shall be the duty of 
 the Street Commissioner to execute and supervise the execution of 
 all orders and directions of the Common Council relative to the 
 construction, completion, alteration or repair of all streets, high- 
 ways, sidewalks, gutters, crosswalks, etc., in said city when not 
 otherwise expressly ordered to be done by other officers or per- 
 sons ; to keep all public places and thoroughfares free" from nuis- 
 ances, and from danger to persons and property, by causing the 
 immediate repair of all defects, and the prompt removal of all ob- 
 structions, encroachments, encumbrances, and filth therein, and by 
 reporting for prosecution all violations of city ordinances relating
 
 70 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 thereto, to provide for the cleaning of all catch basins and receivers, 
 to prescribe the terms and manner of excavating streets and high- 
 ways, also the manner of moving buildings through the public 
 streets and highways ; to keep a record of complaints, and faith- 
 fully enter therein all complaints made to him concerning streets, 
 sidewalks, and all public places, and the breach of ordinances and 
 orders relating thereto ; to conform to all general rules and special 
 directions of the Common Council and the street committee thereof 
 relating to the locality, measurements, and materials of public 
 work ; to keep an accurate account of expenditures in his depart- 
 ment, which account shall be open at all times to the inspection of 
 any member of the Common Council ; to make a written report to 
 the Common Council at its first meeting in April of each year of 
 the work and expenditures of the year ending with the March 3ist 
 next previous ; also to impart at any time any and all information 
 in his power which the Common Council or the street committee 
 thereof may call for concerning his official action or the condition 
 of his department ; to employ and procure such labor and sundry 
 material as the discharge of his duties and the authorized work of 
 his department may require ; and to make provisional contracts, 
 subject to the approval of the Common Council for such public 
 works connected with highway, streets, crosswalks, sidewalks, gut- 
 ters, etc., as ought in his judgment to be done by contract. He 
 shall not, however, be directly or indirectly, pecuniarily interested 
 in furnishing any supplies or materials, teams or labor to the city. 
 Nor shall he alter the grade of any street, highway or sidewalk 
 already established, except by order of the Common Council. 
 
 SEC. 6. Property Owners to Connect With Sewers, etc. In case 
 a street is to be paved with macadam, asphalt, or block stone, or 
 to be repaired in a general way with any substance except earth, 
 all abutting property owners shall be duly warned thereof by a no- 
 tice by mail by the Street Commissioner, and also by notice pub- 
 lished in a daily paper printed in said city, twice, not less than 
 two weeks before the said repairs are commenced, and thereupon
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 71 
 
 STREETS. 
 
 every such owner shall connect such premises with the main lines 
 of sewer, water and gas by service pipes from said mains in such 
 street to the inside of the curb or paving line of such street, if not 
 already connected. Upon failure so to do, the same shall be done 
 by direction of the Street Commissioner, and the expense thereof 
 be borne by such property owner and the same be and remain 
 paid in full with interest a lien upon said premises and property to 
 be enforced and collected as other city liens. It shall be the duty 
 of the Street Commissioner to cause a certificate of such lien to be 
 recorded within sixty days after the completion of such work, un- 
 less previously paid. 
 
 SEC. 7. Pay Roll of Street Department. It shall be the duty 
 of the Street Commissioner on or before Saturday of each week to 
 make out a pay roll on which shall be entered the name of every 
 workman, the number of hours of work performed by each for the 
 preceding week, and the place where such work was done, includ- 
 ing teams, if any, price per hour, and amount. And when such 
 pay roll shall have been approved by the Mayor an order shall be 
 drawn by the Auditor for the full amount of the same, and the 
 Auditor shall deliver the same to the City Clerk, who shall draw 
 the money on said order, and pay the workmen on or before Sat- 
 urday of each week, taking a receipt for the same from each 
 workman. 
 
 SEC. 8. Excavating or Obstructing Streets ; Bond. Every person 
 who shall, without the consent of the Street Commissioner, or of the 
 Common Council, dig up or excavate any portion of the streets, 
 highways, sidewalks, or gutters of said city, or shall place thereon 
 any earth, stones, rubbish, or obstructions to the public use of 
 travel, or shall aid, assist, or abet in any of said acts shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor and shall for each offence pay a penalty of ten 
 dollars. The consent of the Street Commissioner or of the Common 
 Council to each obstruction or excavation as aforesaid, shall not 
 be given until a bond satisfactory to them has been given, securing 
 the city against any claim for damages from accidents caused by 
 said excavations or obstructions.
 
 72 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 9. Connecting Property With Pipes; Penalty. Every per- 
 son who shall connect his property with sewer, water, or gas in a 
 street made of any substance but earth, or repair any such existing 
 connection, shall first secure the written consent of the Street 
 Commissioner. After such consent has been given the Street 
 Commissioner shall supervise and direct such work in such street. 
 All expenses incurred on the part of the city on account of such 
 supervision shall be paid by the party at whose request such per- 
 mit was issued. Any person violating this section shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined ten dollars for each offence. 
 
 SEC. 10. Erection and Maintenance of Signs. No sign shall be 
 erected or maintained over the sidewalk or attached to any pole in 
 or upon any portion of a street of said city. 
 
 SEC. it. Of Posts. No pole or post except such as may be 
 lawfully erected for the support of the trolley wires used by the 
 electric railway companies, and hitching posts of stone or iron, 
 shall be placed, erected or maintained upon or near any curb 
 within the district of said city where subways are located. 
 
 SEC. 12. Penalty. Any person offending against any of the 
 provisions of this ordinance shall forfeit and pay a penalty of ten 
 dollars for each offence, and the maintenance of any sign, pole or 
 post against the provisions of this ordinance for each period of ten 
 days after notice from the Street Commissioner to remove the 
 same, shall be a separate offence. 
 
 SEC. 13. Inconsistent Ordinances. All ordinances and parts of 
 ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
 SEC. 14. Failure to Fill Up Openings in Streets. Every per- 
 son who after having been notified by the Street Commissioner to 
 fill up any excavation or opening in any of the highways, streets, 
 sidewalks, or gutters of said city, made, or procured to be made 
 by him, or to remove therefrom any obstructions, rubbish, earth, 
 or stones placed thereon by him, or by his procurement, shall 
 neglect or refuse so to do within the time limited in such notice, 
 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall pay for each offence a
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 73 
 
 STREETS. 
 
 penalty of ten dollars ; and such neglect or refusal for each twenty- 
 four hours after the expiration of the time limited in such notice 
 shall be deemed a separate and distinct offence. 
 
 SEC. 15. Injuring Streets by Water; Liquid Garbage ; Penalty. 
 No person shall flush any hydrant or fill any catch basin to the det- 
 riment of the macadamized streets. No person in charge of any 
 night lunch wagon, or store on any street, shall pour or allow to 
 be poured any liquid garbage on the street or sidewalks of the city. 
 Every person who shall violate this section shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanor and shall be fined ten dollars for each offence. 
 
 SEC. 1 6. Snow and Ice on Sidewalks ; Penalties. The owner or 
 occupant of any land or building fronting on any street or public 
 place in said city, where there is a sidewalk either of stone or cin- 
 ders, shall within six hours of daylight immediately following the ces- 
 sation of any fall of snow, ice or sleet, or accumulation of ice thereon, 
 cause the same to be removed from such sidewalk, and if the same 
 cannot be wholly removed, shall sprinkle therepn sand or other 
 proper substance, so that the passing upon said sidewalk shall not 
 be obstructed, dangerous, or inconvenient ; and upon failure to do 
 so within the time limited shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
 shall be fined not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars 
 for each offence. After the expiration of the time limited as afore- 
 said, for removing such snow, ice or sleet, it shall be the duty of 
 the Street Commissioner to cause the same to be removed and the 
 expense thereof shall be and continue to be a lien and real encum- 
 brance in favor of said city, and upon such land or buildings ; 
 and it shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner to cause a cer- 
 tificate of lien thereof to be recorded within sixty days thereafter, 
 unless such expense shall have been previously paid. The pro- 
 visions of this section shall also apply to the falling of snow from 
 any building. 
 
 SEC. 17. Opening of Streets; Penalty. No street, or public thor- 
 oughfare, or part of any street or thoroughfare, shall be opened to the 
 public use within the limits of said city except by the direction of,
 
 74 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 or consent of the Common Council first obtained, and if any per- 
 son or corporation shall lay out or open any street, or public thor- 
 oughfare, or part of any street or public thoroughfare, within 
 the limits of said city, without such consent or direction, such 
 person or corporation so offending shall forfeit and pay a pen- 
 alty of fifty dollars for each period of ten days during which 
 such street or part of street, public thoroughfare or part of 
 public thoroughfare, shall remain open and accessible to the pub- 
 lic, and the original opening aforesaid, and each continuance of 
 ten days, as aforesaid, shall constitute a separate and distinct 
 offence. No street shall be accepted until properly graded to the 
 full satisfaction of the Committee on Streets. 
 
 And no grade of any street, highway or sidewalk already estab- 
 lished or to be established hereafter shall be altered by any street 
 commissioner or other person except by the direct orders of the 
 Common Council. 
 
 SEC. 1 8. Lamps at Obstructions in Streets; Penalty. Whenever 
 any lumber, brick, mortar or other building material shall necessarily 
 be left in any street by consent of the Common Council, the amount 
 of room to be so used may be restricted to the actual need of the 
 parties having such consent by the Street Committee or Street 
 Commissioner. Each and every night from dark to daylight the 
 person having this consent must keep a well lighted lamp or lantern 
 at each end of the obstruction, and every person offending against 
 this provision of this ordinance shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
 ten dollars for each offence. 
 
 SEC. 19. Inconsistent Ordinances Repealed. All ordinances and 
 parts of ordinances heretofore existing inconsistent with this ordi- 
 nance on streets, and all previous ordinances and parts thereof 
 that are substantially of the same tenor and embrace the same sub- 
 ject matter as this ordinance, are hereby repealed. 
 
 SEC. 20. Neglect to Make or Pave Sidewalk or Gutter. When- 
 ever the owner of any land fronting upon any street or highway in 
 this city shall neglect to make or pave any sidewalk or gutter within
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 75 
 
 STREETS. 
 
 the time and in the manner ordered by the Common Council, or 
 shall neglect or refuse to keep his sidewalk in good repair, it shall 
 be the duty of the Street Commissioner to make or repair the same, 
 and the cost of making or repairing, and interest thereon, shall be 
 a lien or real incumbrance upon the land and buildings in refer- 
 ence to which such sums shall have been expended to be enforced 
 in like manner as other city liens. 
 
 SEC. 21. Curb Required. Whenever the Common Council 
 shall order a crosswalk on any street the Street Commissioner shall 
 not carry out the order until the property owners owning property 
 at such place have put in a curb, cut at a radius approved by the 
 city surveyor, and extended ten (10) feet each way from said cor- 
 ner (provided it be at the junction of two streets), and have laid 
 their flag walk up to this curb. 
 
 SEC. 22. Hearing Required. Whenever any owners or proprie- 
 tors of any land abutting upon any street or portion thereof shall 
 petition the Common Council that such street or portion of such 
 street be paved or repaved, with paving or other macadam in gen- 
 eral use, specifying in such petition the street or portion of such 
 street as is desired to be paved or repaved, and specifying the 
 kind of material it is desired shall be used in such paving or re- 
 paving, the Common Council' shall cause a notice signed by the 
 Mayor or City Clerk describing in general terms the proposed im- 
 provement, and specifying a time and place when and where all 
 persons interested may appear and be heard by the Common Coun- 
 cil relative thereto, which notice shall be published not less than 
 two times in some daily newspaper published in said city, the last 
 publication to be not more than three days before said day of 
 hearing. 
 
 At the time and place mentioned in said notice, and at any ad- 
 journment thereof, said Common Council shall hear all persons 
 interested, who may appear and desire to be heard.
 
 76 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 23. When Materials Other Than Macadam Used. If after 
 such hearing, said Common Council shall resolve to pave or repave 
 such street or portion of such street, including that portion con- 
 tiguous to lateral or intersecting streets, with materials other than 
 macadam commonly in use, it shall cause a map or maps to be 
 prepared showing the street or portion of such street as it shall or- 
 der paved or repaved with the boundaries of properties of all 
 adjoining proprietors abutting on the street or portion of the street 
 proposed to be paved or repaved, and shall cause to be prepared 
 plans and specifications showing the kind and quality of paving 
 and the manner of making and applying the same, and upon the 
 approval and adoption of such vote, maps, plans and specification, 
 shall cause said improvement to be made. Immediately upon the 
 completion of said paving or repaving, the authority under whose 
 supervision and direction such paving shall have been made, shall 
 return said maps, plans and specifications to the Common Council, 
 together with a report of the cost of such paving or repaving, and 
 an estimate of the part of the cost of such work which by law or 
 contract any company owning or operating a street railway in said 
 street or portion of such street so paved or repaved is liable to pay. 
 
 SEC. 24. Jtefiort to be Referred. Upon receipt of such report 
 with accompanying maps, plans and specifications by the Common 
 Council the same shall be referred to the board of Street Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 SEC. 25. Assessment of Benefits and Damages. Said board of 
 Street Commissioners shall thereupon proceed in the manner pre- 
 scribed by section 50 of the charter of said city to make an assess- 
 ment of benefits and damages for the cost of paving or repaving 
 said street or portion of said street so paved or repaved, not in- 
 cluding such portion of said cost as is borne by any street railway 
 company, upon the owners of the land adjoining said street or por- 
 tion of said street so paved or repaved. 
 
 SEC. 26. Proportion Borne by Property Owners. Not more 
 than two-thirds of the cost of such paving or repaving, not includ-
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 77 
 
 STREET IMPROVEMENT FUND. 
 
 ing therein such portion of said costs as is provided by law shall 
 be borne by any street railway company owning or operating a 
 street railway in said street or portion of said street paved or re- 
 paved, shall be assessed upon the proprietors of land adjoining 
 said street paved or repaved, and the portion not so assessed shall 
 be assessed upon the city at large. 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 STREET IMPROVEMENT FUND. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New 
 Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Street Improvement Fund. That the amount which 
 was appropriated by the city at its annual meeting in 1883, for the 
 purpose of creating a fund to defray the expenses of laying side- 
 walks, curbs and gutters, and repairing the same, when the owners 
 or occupiers of the land and buildings fronting on such sidewalks 
 and gutters shall have neglected or refused to comply with the or- 
 der of the Common Council to lay such sidewalks, curbs and gut- 
 ters, or to repair the same, and all sums of money now due to said 
 city for such work, and such further sums as the city shall here- 
 after appropriate for such purpose, shall be and remain a perma- 
 nent fund, to be known as " the street improvement fund." 
 
 SEC. 2. Cost of Walks, etc. All bills for laying sidewalks, 
 curbs and gutters and repairing the same, which shall be contracted 
 by the city by reason of the owners or occupiers of the land and 
 buildings fronting on such sidewalks and gutters, neglecting or re- 
 fusing to comply with the order of the Common Council in relation 
 thereto, shall be paid from said fund.
 
 78 CHAPTER xxm. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 3. Receipts. All sums now due, and all sums which may 
 hereafter become due to the city for said work, shall, when col- 
 lected, be deposited to the credit of said fund. 
 
 SEC. 4. Benefits and Damages. Whenever an assessment of 
 benefits and damages shall be made on account of the laying out, 
 alteration, construction, extension, enlargement, discontinuance or 
 exchange of any street, highway, public walk or avenue in said 
 city, the benefits so assessed, when collected, shall be deposited to 
 the credit of said fund, and the damages so assessed shall be paid 
 from said fund, and when the benefits so collected shall exceed the 
 damages paid, the excess of such benefits shall be transferred to 
 the street department to pay for the working of said street, high- 
 way, public walk or avenue, and when the damages awarded shall 
 exceed the benefits, the excess of damages so awarded shall be 
 repaid to said fund from the street department appropriation. 
 
 SEC. 5. Treasurer to Report. The treasurer shall present a 
 statement of the receipts, disbursements and balance of said fund 
 with his annual report to the Common Council. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 STREET LIGHTING. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New 
 Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Public Street Lamps. The public street lamps of 
 the city shall be under the care and control of the Committee on 
 Street Lighting, subject to the orders and instructions of the Com- 
 mon Council. No public street lamp shall be erected, changed, 
 altered, or removed without the consent of the Common Council.
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 79 
 
 STREET LIGHTING. 
 
 SEC. 2. Map of Street Lights and Record. The Committee on 
 Street Lighting shall cause to be made a map of the city showing 
 thereon the location of each public street lamp and denoting on 
 said map on the point where each and evefy lamp is located a 
 number, which number shall be duplicated in stencil on the pole 
 supporting the said lamp as represented on the map. The num- 
 bers herein denned shall each be preceded by the number of the 
 ward in which such lamp is located. Said committee shall also 
 keep a book in which shall be noted the number and location of 
 each and every lamp within the city together with the information 
 as to the date such lamp or lamps was ordered erected by the Com- 
 mon Council, and all changes, alterations, or removals of any and 
 all lamps. Said book shall be and remain in the custody of the 
 City. Clerk when not in use by the committee, and shall be deemed 
 a part of the city records. 
 
 SEC. 3. Lamps Designated. Whenever the Committee on Street 
 Lighting shall report to the Common Council any matter in rela- 
 tion to the erection, change, alteration or removal of any street 
 lamp, the committee shall incorporate in said report the number 
 and location of the lamps to which their report refers. 
 
 SEC. 4. Penalty for Injuring Street Lighting Apparatus. Any 
 person who shall willfully and maliciously cut, break, injure, de- 
 stroy or deface any gas light, lamp, lantern, post, or frame, erected 
 or maintained by the Common Council for the purpose of lighting 
 the streets of said city, or shall light or extinguish any public gas 
 lamp or other light without proper authority, or in any way will- 
 fully or maliciously interfere with the proper use or management 
 of the public lights in said city, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
 fifteen dollars for each offence.
 
 80 CHAPTER XXIV. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIV. 
 
 SUPPLIES. 
 Be it Ordained by (he Common Council of the City of New Britain: 
 
 SECTION i. Office Supplies. It shall be the duty of all officers 
 and departments of the City., whose office supplies are paid for 
 from the general funds of the City, the bills for which are to pass 
 through the hands of the claims committee of the Common Coun- 
 cil to furnish the City Clerk with a detailed statement of the sup- 
 plies needed by them from time to time. The clerk shall submit 
 said statement to the committee on supplies for their approval, 'and 
 if approved by said committee, the clerk shall procure the said 
 supplies to the best advantage of the City, and deliver the same to 
 the officers or departments to which the same belongs. 
 
 SEC. 2. Order Blank. In ordering the said supplies the clerk 
 shall have an order blank on which he shall clearly state a list of 
 the supplies needed properly addressed to the party or parties who 
 are to furnish said supplies. Said party or parties, in rendering 
 the bills for the said supplies furnished by them, shall return said 
 order attached to the bill or bills rendered, or the same will not be 
 approved by the claims committee. 
 
 SEC. 3. Supplies Other Than Office Supplies. All officers and 
 Departments having power to purchase supplies other than office 
 supplies shall supply themselves with order blanks to be used by 
 them for their respective offices and departments, after the same 
 manner as stated above. 
 
 SEC. 4, When Bills Not Binding. Any bill contracted except 
 as above provided, shall not be legal or binding on the City of 
 New Britain.
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 81 
 
 TAXES. 
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 TAXES. 
 
 Be it ordained by. the Common Council of the City oj New Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Tax. Whenever said city shall lay a tax, the same 
 shall be levied upon the polls and ratable estate liable to taxation 
 therein, as set and entered in the assessment list of the town of 
 New Britain last made and completed unless otherwise specified in 
 the vote laying said tax. 
 
 SEC. z. City Assessment List ; Finance Committee to Act as Board 
 of Relief ; Duty of Rate-bill Maker. It shall be the duty of the finance 
 committee of the Common Council, when any city tax shall be laid, 
 to cause to be prepared by some proper person to be called the city 
 rate-bill maker, a full and complete city assessment list, in preparing 
 which list no change shall be made from the valuations in said town 
 list, provided, however, that when it shall appear that any real estate, 
 assessed in said town list as one parcel, is situated partly within 
 and partly without said city, or that any real estate situated wholly 
 within said city has been omitted from said town list, or that any 
 real estate has changed ownership since said town list was made, 
 then in either of said cases, the finance committee of the Common 
 Council shall apply to one or more of the town assessors for the 
 time being, who shall assess the value of such real estate, and the 
 same shall be placed in the city assessment list at the valuation so 
 established, and the value as so fixed of any transferred real estate 
 shall be deducted from the list of the person in whose name it 
 stood on said town assessment list. The said city list being so 
 prepared, shall be deposited with the City Clerk, and, within 
 twenty days thereafter, the finance committee shall meet at some 
 convenient place in said city, having given notice of the time and 
 place of such meeting in a newspaper in said city at least ten days 
 before holding the same, to hear and act upon the complaints of
 
 82 CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 all persons or corporations claiming to be aggrieved by such 
 amendatory action of said assessors or their failure to amend said 
 list on application as aforesaid, and for that purpose shall have 
 the powers of town boards of relief ; and said city assessment be- 
 ing so perfected by the finance committee and certified by them, 
 shall be lodged with the City Clerk, and shall be the basis of taxa- 
 tion by said city until the next town assessment shall have been 
 made and completed. It shall also be the duty of said rate-bill 
 maker to make out and certify a rate-bill setting forth the propor- 
 tion which each taxable person or corporation shall pay according 
 to law. 
 
 SEC. 3. Rate-bill Make? to be Sworn; Compensation The city 
 rate-bill maker shall be sworn to faithfully discharge the duties of 
 his office, and said rate-bill maker and assessors shall receive such 
 reasonable compensation as the Common Council shall allow. 
 
 SEC. 4. Warrant for Collection of Taxes When said rate bill 
 shall have been made out, the Mayor of said city or one of the 
 aldermen thereof, shall issue his warrant for the collection of the 
 same, directed to the collector, commanding and empowering him 
 to collect and pay the same to the City Treasurer within a time 
 limited therein, which shall not be less than three months from the 
 date of such warrant. 
 
 SEC. 5. Auditor to Report Unpaid Taxes. It shall be the duty 
 of the City Auditor, in auditing the accounts of the City Collector, 
 to ascertain the amount of taxes uncollected and due the city on 
 each and every city rate-bill, and also the amounts due the city on 
 all warrants for the collection of assessments on account of public 
 improvements of all kinds, and to report the same to the Common 
 Council. 
 
 SEC. 6. Abatements. The Finance Committee shall have power, 
 subject to the approval of the Common Council, to abate the taxes 
 of such persons in said city as are poor and unable to pay the 
 same, and of such others as it may, in their judgment, seem proper 
 to abate,
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 83 
 
 TAXES. 
 
 SEC. 7. Tax Collector to Report Back Taxes, etc. It shall be 
 the duty of the collector to report to the corporation counsel on 
 the first Monday of September, 1899, and the first Monday of Sep- 
 tember of each year thereafter, all taxes upon, property, all sewer 
 and street improvement assessments, and all poll taxes that have 
 not been abated according to law, and which have been due and 
 unpaid for a period of two years ; also all assessments upon prop- 
 erty which have been due and unpaid for a period of three years, 
 and it shall.be the duty of the corporation counsel to proceed 
 forthwith to take all legal steps necessary to enforce the payment 
 of said taxes and assessments. In special cases in which it is 
 found that the above provision works a hardship, the period of 
 assessments may be extended not exceeding two years by a three 
 fourths vote of the Common Council, on appeal of the aggrieved 
 debtor, and the collector directed by the said Common Council to 
 omit from his annual report to the corporation counsel the names 
 of such parties until the expiration of the additional two years 
 granted by vote of said Common Council. 
 
 SEC. 8. Delinquent Tax Payers, Etc. It shall be the duty of 
 the collector to report to the Common Council on the first Monday 
 of October, 1899, an d on the first Monday of each quarter there- 
 after, the names and addresses of all persons liable to pay taxes 
 and assessments to said city, and who have neglected to pay the 
 same for one year after the same became payable, and he shall 
 likewise report to the Common Council the names and addresses 
 of all persons who shall have neglected to pay their sewer or street 
 improvement assessments for a period of sixty days after the same 
 became due and payable. 
 
 SEC. 9. Collector to Pay Treasurer. It shall be the duty of the 
 City Collector to pay to the City Treasurer all moneys received 
 by him, semi-monthly, or as soon as, and whenever the amount 
 collected shall exceed the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). 
 
 No provision of Section 4 of Chapter XXV. shall be construed 
 as conflicting with this section.
 
 84 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 TRADE. 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Licenses. No person except those exempt by stat- 
 utes of the State shall vend upon the public streets of said city, any 
 groceries, provisions, fruits, goods, wares or other merchandise at 
 any private or public sale or auction, or shall peddle or solicit 
 sales of said articles of merchandise from house to house within 
 said city, unless such person shall have a license from the Com- 
 mon Council or the license committee thereof, and the following 
 sums of money shall hereafter be paid as such license fees by all 
 persons receiving licenses from the license committee or the Com- 
 mon Council : 
 
 For vegetable and fruit peddlers, $2.00 per month or fraction 
 thereof. 
 
 For clothing dealers with teams, $2.00 per month or fraction 
 thereof. 
 
 For dry goods dealers with teams, $2.00 per month or fraction 
 thereof. 
 
 For cigar and tobacco dealers with teams, $2.00 per month or 
 fraction thereof. 
 
 For boot and shoe dealers with teams, $2.00 per month or frac- 
 tion thereof. 
 
 For pack peddlers, $2.00 per month or fraction thereof. 
 
 For tinware peddlers with teams, $2.00 per month or fraction 
 thereof. 
 
 For tinware peddlers with push carts, $1.00 per month or frac- 
 tion thereof. 
 
 Provided that this section shall not extend to sales, by farmers 
 or gardeners, of the products of their farms and gardens, or to fish 
 venders.
 
 CHAPTER XXVI. 85 
 
 TRADE. 
 
 Such peddlers and street venders, either with or without teams, 
 shall be licensed to do business only between the hours of seven 
 o'clock a.m., and four o'clock p.m. Each peddler or vender shall 
 procure a badge, with a number plainly engraved or fastened 
 thereon, from the chief of police, for which he shall deposit with 
 said chief of police the sum of $2.00 as security therefor, and 
 shall wear such badge in a conspicuous place. 
 
 Any person offending against any provision in this section shall 
 forfeit and pay a penalty of $10.00 for each offence. 
 
 SEC. 2. Additional Subjects. The following sums of money 
 shall hereafter be paid as license fees by all persons receiving li- 
 censes from the license committee or the Common Council for the 
 following subjects : 
 
 Opera House, per year, $50.00. 
 
 Circus, large, per day, $50.00. 
 
 Circus, small, per day, $25.00. 
 
 Circus, dime, per day, $10.00. 
 
 Circus, dime, each additional day, $5. 
 
 Merry-go-round, per day, $2.00. 
 
 Merry-go-round each additional day, $1.00. 
 
 Street fakirs, per day, $2.00. 
 
 Medicine men, per day, $6.00. 
 
 Wrestling matches, per day, $2.00. 
 
 Hacks and busses, per horse, per year, $1.00. 
 
 Keeping or selling gun powder, per year, $5.00. 
 
 Rent of stores, museums, per day, $2.00. 
 
 Each additional day, $1.00. 
 
 Entertainments given by out of town parties in other than opera 
 houses, churches, etc., per day, $2.00. 
 
 Auctioneers per year or fractional part thereof, $20.00. 
 
 SEC. 3. Venders Licensed by State. No license shall be re- 
 quired of such itinerant venders and junk dealers as are required
 
 86 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 to be licensed under the statutes of the State of Connecticut, 
 though the same person may be required to take out a separate 
 license for the carrying on of each of the different occupations 
 above specified. 
 
 SEC. 4. Collection of Rags, Etc. No person shall engage in the 
 business of collecting rags, paper, glass, cinders or other waste 
 matter within the city of New Britain, or go about in the streets, 
 alleys and public places in said city, for the purpose of collecting, 
 purchasing or bartering for the same, without first having obtained 
 a license so to do from the Chief of Police of said city, which said 
 licenses may contain such conditions as he may deem expedient, 
 and be revocable at the pleasure of the said chief, upon notice, 
 subject to an appeal to the license committee. The fee for such 
 license shall be two ($2.00) dollars per annum, and no person so 
 licensed as a ragpicker shall pursue his said business between the 
 hours of six in the evening and seven in the morning. Such license 
 shall be countersigned by the City Clerk, and a record made by 
 him of the same. The Chief of Police shall provide each ragpicker 
 with a badge and a number for the wagon. 
 
 SEC. 5. Keeping of Gunpowder. No person shall keep or have 
 for sale, or any other purpose, in any house, store, or other build- 
 ing within the limits of said city, more than one pound of gun- 
 powder, without previous license of the Common Council or the 
 license committee thereof. 
 
 SEC. 6- Keeping or Selling Gunpowder. No person licensed 
 to keep or sell gunpowder pursuant hereto, shall have on hand at 
 any one time more than fifty pounds in weight, and the same shall 
 be kept in a chest of copper, tin, or some other incombustible 
 material, marked on the front with the word "gunpowder," which 
 chest shall have two stout handles and a tight lid or cover with 
 hinges, and no person shall sell any gunpowder except between 
 sunrise and sunset. 
 
 SEC. 7. Transportation of Gunpowder. No person without li- 
 cense shall transport any gunpowder through said city or any street
 
 CHAPTER XXVI. 87 
 
 TRADE. 
 
 thereof, #t any other time than between the rising and setting of 
 the sun, not in quantities of more than one hundred pounds at any 
 one time, in any one vehicle, and only in accordance with the 
 terms of the permission, which shall be first obtained of the 
 Chief Engineer of the Fire Department. 
 
 SEC. 8. Penalty Any person offending against any of the pro- 
 visions of the three preceding sections of this ordinance shall for- 
 feit and pay a penalty of not less than twenty nor more than fifty 
 dollars for each offence, and a like penalty for every day that such 
 person shall have, keep or possess any gunpowder contrary to the 
 provisions of said sections. 
 
 SEC. 9. Nitro-glycerine or Dynamite. No person without li- 
 cense shall have, keep, or possess, or bring within the limits of 
 said city any of the compounds known as nitro-glycerine, or dyna- 
 mite, and any person so offending, shall forfeit and pay a penalty 
 of fifty dollars, and a like penalty for every day that such person 
 shall have, keep, or possess any of said compounds within said 
 city. 
 
 SEC. 10. License Committee to Fix Fees. The License Com- 
 mittee of the Common Council shall prescribe fees (subject to ap- 
 peal, by any party interested, to said Council) for issuing licenses 
 for any of the purposes aforesaid. 
 
 SEC. ii. Sealer of Weights and Measures. There shall be ap- 
 pointed annually in the month of April by the Common Council a 
 Sealer of Weights and Measures, whose duty it shall be to annually 
 inspect, prove correct, and seal all measures, scales, steelyards 
 and weights used for weighing or measuring by any person in do- 
 ing business within said city of New Britain. All such measures, 
 scales, steelyards and weights as are found or made to correspond 
 and agree with said standards shall be marked or sealed with the 
 letters N. B. S. In addition to said annual inspection said Sealer 
 of Weights and Measures shall when requested by any person, try 
 and test by said standards the measures, scales, steelyards and 
 weights used by any person doing business within said city.
 
 88 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 12. Penalty. Any person who shall, within the limits of 
 said city, use any weight or measure to ascertain the length, weight 
 or quantity of any article by him sold, which weight or measure 
 has not been marked or sealed by said Sealer of Weights and 
 Measures in the manner provided in the eleventh section of this 
 ordinance, or who shall knowingly or with intent to defraud, sell 
 any article as or for a greater weight, measure or quantity than 
 such article does in fact weigh or measure according to said stand- 
 ards, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than two nor more 
 than twenty dollars. 
 
 SEC. 13. Compensation of Sealer of Weights and Measures. The 
 owner of the several measures, scales, and steelyards and weights 
 shall pay said Sealer of Weights and Measures for each annual in- 
 spection made as required by section eleventh of this ordinance: 
 for testing each set of weights, twenty-five cents ; set of measures 
 from gill to gallon, twenty-five cents ; each yardstick, five cents ; 
 set of measures, dry, twenty-five cents ; for each scale, balance, or 
 basket, the sum of twenty-five cents each ; for each weight or 
 measure less than a set, the sum of five cents each. When an 
 additional inspection shall be made as provided in section eleven of 
 this ordinance, the expense o'f such inspection shall be paid by the 
 person requesting the same, unless such measures, scales, steel- 
 yards and weights are found to be incorrect, in which case the 
 expense of such inspection shall be paid by the owner. 
 
 SEC. 14. To Visit All Places. The Sealer of Weights and 
 Measures shall visit from time to time, as he shall deem necessary, 
 all places in said city where scales, weights or measures of any 
 kind are used in buying or selling any article of merchandise, and 
 inspect such scales, weights or measures, as have not been inspected 
 within one year, and proceed as provided in section eleventh. 
 
 SEC. 15. Inspection of Scales, Etc., of Peddlers. It shall be 
 the duty of the Sealer of Weights and Measures, and it shall be 
 lawful for him to enter any store, house, or any other building or 
 yard in said city, where weights and measures are used for the
 
 CHAPTER XXVI. 89 
 
 TRADE. 
 
 purpose of buying or selling any article, at any reasonable hour, 
 to inspect any scales, weights or measures contained therein, and 
 it shall be lawful for him to inspect the scales, weights, or measures 
 of any itinerant merchant or peddler of fruits, 'vegetables, or other 
 articles of merchandise in said city. 
 
 SEC. 1 6. Weighing of Hay and Coal When Requested. All 
 persons, their agents or drivers, selling hay or coal in the city of 
 New Britain shall, whenever requested by the purchaser of such 
 hay or coal, give to him the weight thereof, and if such purchaser 
 request it, shall cause such hay or coal and the cart, wagon or 
 other vehicle containing the same to be forthwith weighed by the 
 Sealer of Weights and Measures on such scales as said Sealer may 
 select, and after delivering such hay or coal shall forthwith before 
 taking another load return said cart, wagon or other vehicle to the 
 same scales and cause it to be weighed thereon. Said Sealer shall 
 then give such purchaser a certificate of the weight of such hay or 
 coal, and if the weight certified to by said Sealer is not less than 
 the weight previously given by such seller, agent or driver, said 
 purchaser shall pay the fees of said Sealer of Weights and Meas- 
 ures, and shall pay the driver twenty-five cents for the detention 
 thus caused ; but if the weight certified to by said Sealer is less 
 than the weight previously given by such seller, agent or driver, 
 then all of said expenses shall be paid by such seller of such hay 
 or coal. 
 
 SEC. 17. Weighing of Hay and Coal for Benefit of Public. Said 
 Sealer of Weights and Measures shall also as often as he deems it 
 necessary, inspect for the benefit of the public, the weight of hay 
 or coal in the manner above described. He shall not however 
 make less than five and not more than twenty-five tests in any one 
 quarter of the fiscal year of the City. If the weight certified to by 
 said Sealer is not less than the weight previously given by such 
 dealer, agent or driver, the City shall pay the fees of said Sealer 
 and weigher and shall pay the driver twenty-five cents for the de- 
 tention thus caused ; but if the weight certified to by said Sealer i
 
 90 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 less than the weight previously given by such seller, agent or 
 driver, then all such expenses shall be paid by the seller of such 
 hay or coal. 
 
 SEC. 1 8. Refusal to Have Hay or Coal Weighed; Penalty. All 
 persons, their agents or drivers, selling hay or coal, who shall 
 neglect or refuse to comply with the request of the purchaser of 
 such hay or coal to give such purchaser the weight of such hay or 
 coal or who shall refuse to have the cart or wagon containing such 
 hay or coal to be forthwith weighed by the Sealer of Weights and 
 Measures on request, as provided for in sections 16 and 17 of this 
 Ordinance, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than twenty- 
 five dollars, one-half of which shall be paid to the person or per- 
 sons giving the necessary information for conviction under this 
 section. 
 
 SEC. 19. Record to Be Kept; Report; Fee. The Sealer of 
 Weights and Measures shall make a record of all acts performed 
 by him relating to the weighing of hay or coal, the date thereof 
 and the names of the sellers and purchasers 'of such hay or coal, 
 and shall make a quarterly report thereof to the Common Council. 
 The fee of said Sealer of Weights and Measures for weighing hay 
 or coal shall be thirty-five cents per weighing. 
 
 SEC. 20. Policemen to Assist Sealer of Weights and Measures. 
 It shall be the duty of every policeman to assist the Sealer of 
 Weights and Measures when required, and report to him any vio- 
 lation within his knowledge, of any provisions of this ordinance 
 relating to the use of weights and measures and the weighing of 
 hay and coal, and the Sealer of Weights and Measures shall report 
 the same to the Prosecuting Attorney for prosecution forthwith. 
 
 SEC. 21. Penally. Every person who shall hinder or obstruct 
 such Sealer of Weights and Measures in the discharge of his duties 
 herein imposed upon him, shall forfeit and pay for each offeree a 
 penalty of ten dollars,
 
 CHAPTER xxvii. di 
 
 WATER. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVII. 
 
 WATER. 
 Be it Ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Acting Water Commissioner; Compe)tsation nj Com- 
 missioners. The chairman of the board of water commissioners 
 shall be the acting commissioner and to him the discharge of the 
 active duties of the board shall pertain, including the receipt and 
 dischargement of all moneys and funds. Such acting commis- 
 sioner shall receive compensation for his services at the rate of one 
 thousand dollars per annum, and the sum of three dollars per day 
 for each day of actual service, shall also- be received by each of 
 the other commissioners whenever his services shall be required. 
 
 Whenever one of the water commissioners shall also be clerk of 
 the board of said commissioners, his salary as such clerk shall 
 not prevent him from receiving the compensation for other services 
 outside of official duties as clerk, as member of said board. 
 
 SEC. 2. Annual Report to the Council. It shall be the duty of 
 the Water Commissioners to report, annually, to the Common 
 Council, at its first meeting in April, a classified statement of all 
 sums received by them from all sources, and all expenditures in- 
 curred by them, together with a general exhibit of the existing 
 state of the water works and the finances relating thereto, which 
 report, having been duly audited, shall be recorded by the City 
 Clerk and published in such manner as the Common Council shall 
 direct. They shall also report at any time upon call of the Com- 
 mon Council. 
 
 SEC. 3. Water Commissioners to Give Bonds. Each of the Water 
 Commissioners shall give bond, with at least one sufficient surety, 
 for the faithful performance of his duty, the Acting Commissioner 
 in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, and the others in the sum of 
 five hundred dollars each.
 
 92 CHAPTER XXVII. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. 4. To Give Consent to Use of Water. Any person who 
 shall cause or allow water from the water works of said city to be 
 introduced upon premises owned or occupied by him, or who shall 
 use an additional quantity of said water, or shall use it for a pur- 
 pose different from that for which it has previously been used by 
 him, without first obtaining the written consent of the Chairman of 
 the Board of Water Commissioners of said city, shall forfeit and 
 pay for each offence a penalty of not less than five nor more than 
 twenty-five dollars. 
 
 SEC. 5. Penalty for Plumbers; Changes in Water Service. Any 
 person who shall do the plumbing, or any part thereof, necessary 
 to be done for the commission of any of the acts mentioned in 
 section four, knowing that the consent therein required has not 
 been obtained, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this ordi- 
 nance and shall be subject to the penalty above, named. All 
 plumbers must make monthly reports in writing to the Chairman 
 of the Board of Water Commissioners of all changes and additions 
 made to the water service. Any plumber who shall fail to so 
 report before the loth day of the succeeding month, shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor and shall be fined five dollars for each offence. 
 
 SEC. 6. Penalty for Connecting With Water Pipes Every per- 
 son who shall without special authority from the Commissioners, 
 tap or make any connection with any street main or service or 
 other distributing pipe connected with the water works, shall be 
 guilty of a misdemeanor and be fined not exceeding thirty dollars 
 for each offence. 
 
 SEC. 7. Penalty for Waste r>f Water. No owner or occupant 
 of any premises shall allow unnecessary waste of the public or 
 "Shuttle Meadow" water; and whenever such waste occurs, such 
 owner or occupant shall forfeit and pay for each offence a penalty 
 of not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars. The Water 
 Commissioners of said city shall be the sole judges of what is an 
 unnecessary waste of water.
 
 CHAPTER XXVII. 93 
 
 WATER. 
 
 SEC. 8. When Water Shall Be Shut Off. The Water Commis- 
 sioners shall cause the water works of said city to be shut off from 
 the premises of any person or corporation neglecting or refusing 
 to pay rent for the use of said water within the 1 time limited for the 
 payment thereof in the rules and regulations adopted by the Com- 
 missioners for said water works, or for the willful neglect or viola- 
 tion of any of said rules and regulations ; and any person who, 
 without written consent of the Chairman of said Board of Water 
 Commissioners, shall again let on said water on the premises of 
 the person or corporation so neglecting or offending, shall forfeit 
 and pay a penalty of not less than five nor more than twenty-five 
 dollars for each offence. 
 
 SEC. 9. Boating, Etc., on Shuttle Meadow Lake Prohibited. 
 That for the preservation of the purity of the water at Shuttle 
 Meadow Lake, so-called, in the Town of Southington, and of the 
 health of the city, all boating and sailing and keeping of boats or 
 rafts, upon said lake, and fishing therein from boats or rafts, and 
 skating, driving or riding upon the ice of said lake with horses or 
 other animals, and the throwing into the water of said lake any 
 dead fish or animal, or refuse of any kind is hereby prohibited, 
 and any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this 
 section of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
 shall be liable to a fine of not more r han fifty dollars for each 
 offence. 
 
 SEC. 10. Exemptions of Water Commissioners and Employees. 
 The provisions of section nine of this ordinance, except as to fish- 
 ing from boats or rafts on said lake, and skating, shall not apply 
 to persons in the employ of said city of New Britain or the Water 
 Commissioners thereof while engaged upon said lake in maintain- 
 ing, repairing and improving the water works of said city, or to 
 the keeping or maintaining upon said lake by said Water Commis- 
 sioners of boats or rafts to be used for said purpose of maintain- 
 ing, repairing or improving said water works.
 
 &4 CHAPTER XXVII. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 SEC. ii. Penalty for Opening or Obstructing Access to Hydrants. 
 If any person except firemen, for uses of the fire department, shall 
 open any public hydrant or stop-cock without the consent of the 
 Commissioners, or if any person shall place any building materials 
 or other articles, or rubbish, in such manner as to hinder or ob- 
 struct the free access to any such hydrant or stop-cock, every per- 
 son so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be fined not 
 exceeding thirty dollars for each offence. 
 
 SEC. 12. Permit to Dig Up Street Required. The Water Com- 
 missioners shall require property owners wishing to connect their 
 premises with the water mains to show a permit to dig up the 
 street, signed by the Street Commissioner. 
 
 SEC. 13. Laying of Water Mains Outside City and in Unac- 
 cepted Streets. The Water Commissioners be and they are hereby 
 authorized to lay water mains in streets or highways outside the 
 city lines and in unaccepted streets within the city lines where the 
 necessary security is given for returns and the grade will warrant it. 
 
 SEC. 14. Petitions, How Acted Upon. Petitions for water mains 
 in streets or highways outside the city limits, or in unaccepted 
 streets in the city limits, when presented to the Common Council, 
 shall be referred to the committee on water and light, and said 
 committee shall consult with the Water Commissioners before the 
 petition shall be anthorized by the vote of the Common Council. 
 
 SEC. 15. Selectmen to Be Consulted. Before water mains are 
 laid outside the city lines, the Water Commissioners shall consult 
 with and make necessary arrangements with the Board of Select- 
 men of the town concerning the excavation of the street or high- 
 way and the protection of the same during the progress of the 
 work. 
 
 SEC. 1 6. Duty of Water Commissioners. It shall be the duty 
 of the Water Commissioners of said city to see that the provisions 
 of this ordinance are enforced.
 
 CHAPTER XXVIII. 95 
 
 AN ORDINANCE TO CARRY INTO EFFECT THE REVISION OF 
 THE ORDINANCES. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIII. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE TO CARRY INTO EFFECT THE RE- 
 VISION OF THE ORDINANCES. 
 
 Be it Ordained by the Common Council of the City of New 
 Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Revised Ordinances, When to Take Effect. On and 
 after the first day of August, 1896, the revision of the ordinances 
 of said city, adopted on the i5th day of July, 1896, as the same 
 have been revised, arranged and incorporated together, by the 
 Ordinance Committee of the Common Council passed July 15, 
 1896, shall be and remain the ordinances of said city, and be en- 
 titled the Ordinances of the City of New Britain. 
 
 SEC. 2. Revised Ordinances Not to Be Published in a News- 
 paper. And whereas, the said ordinances of said city require that 
 each ordinance shall be published in a newspaper in said city be- 
 fore the same shall be valid and operative, nevertheless the revision 
 of the ordinances as aforesaid shall without being published in any 
 newspaper be valid and operative, notwithstanding said ordinance; 
 provided, however, that this particular ordinance shall be pub- 
 lished as by the ordinances required. 
 
 SEC. 3. Record Copy. One copy of said ordinances as pub- 
 lished by said Committee on Ordinances, shall be by them depos- 
 ited, and thereafter kept in the office of the City Clerk, who shall 
 annex thereto a certificate under his hand and the seal of said city, 
 that the ordinances therein contained are the ordinances of said 
 city, and such copy shall be an authentic record of such ordin- 
 ances,
 
 96 CHAPTER XXIX. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIX. 
 
 SUBWAY COMMISSION. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New 
 Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Election of Commissioners. The Board of Subway 
 Commissioners shall consist of three electors of said city, to be 
 elected by the Common Council, one member to serve until the 
 third Wednesday of April, 1900, or until his successor is duly 
 elected and qualified. One member until the third Wednesday in 
 April, 1901, or until his successor is duly appointed and qualified, 
 and one member until the third Wednesday in April, 1902, or until 
 his successor is duly appointed and qualified. 
 
 The Common Council shall during the month of April, A. D., 
 1901, on or after the third Wednesday in said month in April in 
 each year thereafter, elect one member of said board, who shall 
 hold office for the term of three years from the third Wednesday of 
 April of the year in which he was elected ; and until his successor 
 is duly elected and qualified. Not more lhan two members of the 
 board shall be of the same political party. 
 
 SEC. 2. Vacancy Filled. Removal ol Members. Whenever a 
 vacancy shall occur in said board it shall be filled in the manner 
 provided in the section for the appointment of members ; and 
 said Common Council may remove any member for cause. 
 
 SEC. 3. Commissioners to Be Trustees. Said Board of Subway 
 Commissioners shall be the trustees of the notes, scrip or certifi- 
 cates of debt issued by the city for the construction and mainten- 
 ance of conduits, and shall keep a record of all such notes, scrip 
 or certificates of debt issued, disposed of or pledged, and all 
 moneys received by said board from the disposal of such notes, 
 scrip or certificates of debts, rentals for conduits, or from any 
 other source whatsoever, shall be by them paid over to the treas* 
 urer of said city.
 
 CHAPTER XXIX. 97 
 
 SUBWAY COMMISSION. 
 
 SEC. 4. Construction, Etc., of Conduits; Records and Reports; 
 Contracts. Said board is authorized and empowered to attend to 
 the construction, supervision, care and management of the con- 
 duits of said city, the renting, collection of rentals for the use of 
 said conduits by corporations or individuals, and to exercise any ad- 
 ditional powers conferred upon them by the Common Council ; and 
 they shall keep a record of their official proceedings, and render a 
 report of their doings to said Common Council quarterly (and 
 oftener if requested), including a general exhibit of the state of its 
 works, an account of sums required to be expended therefor, and 
 such other matters of importance as may be called for by said 
 Common Council, provided that said board shall always be under 
 the direction of the Common Council of said city, and all contracts 
 proposed to be made by it shall be submitted to the Common 
 Council for its approval and ratification. 
 
 SEC. 5. Salaries. Each member of the Board of Subway Com- 
 missioners shall receive a salary and compensation of One Hundred 
 Dollars ($100) per annum, payable monthly, same as other city 
 officials. The clerk of said board shall receive a salary and com- 
 pensation of Fifty Dollars ($50) per annum, payable same as other 
 city officials, said salaries to be taken from the Subway Fund. A 
 member of said board may act as clerk and draw salary as such. 
 
 SEC. 6. Bonds. Each member of the Board of Subway Com- 
 missioners shall give a bond with at least one surety, in the sum of 
 two thousand ($2,000) dollars for the faithful performance of his 
 duty. 
 
 SEC. 7. Recommendations. All recommendations of the Board 
 of Subway Commissioners to the Common Council in regard to 
 the building of conduits shall contain a careful estimate of the cost 
 of construction, and all bids and proposals for construction or 
 other work, to be submitted to the Common Council for its ratifi- 
 cation. 
 
 SEC. 8. Wires Required in Conduits. All parties and corpora- 
 tions owning or operating electric wires except such as are used in
 
 98 CHAPTER XXIX. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 operating signals on any railroad, or wires used in connection with 
 the operation of any railroad by means of electricity upon a third 
 rail system, over or along the streets and highways in said city 
 where main conduits are built and constructed, are hereby required 
 to place such electric wires underground in said conduits and to 
 remove the poles carrying only such wires, within two months after 
 this ordinance goes into effect and written notice thereof has been 
 given to said parties and corporations by the clerk of said city. 
 
 SEC. 9. Rentals. The rentals for the use of conduits shall be 
 as follows, to wit : Three and one-half ($.03^) cents per foot 
 until January i, 1902. 
 
 SEC. 10. Rule* and Regulations. The rules and regulations re- 
 lating to the use and occupancy of the subway system, adopted by 
 the Common Council, February 21, 1901, and by the subway com- 
 mission February 23, 1901, are hereby amended by certain changes 
 to rules and regulations dated May 29, 1901, submitted to this 
 meeting and on file, and rules and regulations as amended are 
 hereby adopted, ratified and confirmed. 
 
 SEC. ii. Penalty. Any party or corporation who shall fail or 
 neglect to comply with the provisions of section ten (10) of this 
 ordinance shall forfeit and pay to the use of said city a penalty of 
 fifty dollars for each week during which such failure or neglect 
 shall continue, to be recovered by an action of debt or other 
 proper action in the name of the city, brought to the city court of 
 said city, and each week's continuance of such failure or neglect 
 shall constitute a separate offence but the provisions of this section 
 shall not prevent said city from pursuing any remedy it would 
 otherwise have in law or equity to enforce the provisions of said 
 section ten (10). 
 
 SEC. 12. Pay of Laborers. It shall be the duty of the Clerk 
 of the Board of Subway Commissioners whenever laborers are em- 
 ployed in the Subway Department, to make out a pay roll on which 
 shall be entered the names of every workman, the number of hours 
 of work performed by each for the preceding week, and the place 
 where such work was done, including teams, if any, the price per
 
 CHAPTER XXX. && 
 
 RESTRICTION ON COMMISSION. 
 
 hour and amount. And when such pay roll shall have been approved 
 by the Mayor, an order shall be drawn by the Auditor for the full 
 amount of the same, and the Auditor shall deliver the same to the 
 City Clerk, who shall draw the money on said order and pay the 
 workmen on or before Saturday of each week, taking a receipt for 
 the same from each workman. 
 
 CHAPTER XXX. 
 
 RESTRICTION ON COMMISSION. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New 
 Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Bond of Chairman of Police Board. The Chair- 
 man of the Board of Police Commissioners shall furnish bonds to 
 the city in the sum of $1,000 for the faithful performance of his 
 duty, said bond to be renewed each year, upon his election as such 
 chairman. The cost of procuring said bond shall be paid by the 
 city. 
 
 SEC. 2. Auditor to Make Quarterly Report. The City Auditor 
 shall make detailed quarterly reports to the Common Council of 
 the financial condition of all departments whose business is trans- 
 acted through him. 
 
 SEC. 3. Examination of Books of Departments. Committee of 
 three members each, of the Common Council, to be named by the 
 Mayor, shall annually (or oftener if deemed necessary) examine 
 the books, accounts, vouchers and records of the water, sewer, fire 
 and police commissioners, and report to the Common Council the 
 results of their examination. 
 
 SEC. 4. Furnishing Supplies, Etc. Members of the various 
 commissions of the city are prohibited from directly or indirectly 
 furnishing supplies or doing work in their departments, except such 
 as come within the scope of their official duties. Violation of this 
 ordinance shall be cause for removal.
 
 100 CHAPTER XXXI. 
 
 NEW BRITAIN CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXI. 
 
 COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC WORKS. 
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Britain : 
 
 SECTION i. Membership of Cemmittee of Public Works. There 
 is hereby created a Committee of Public Works for said City, com- 
 prised of seven members, as follows, to wit : The chairman of the 
 Committee on Streets, ex-officio, the Street Commissioner, ex- 
 officio, one member of the Board of Water Commissioners, one 
 member of the Board of Sewer Commissioners, one member of the 
 Board of Subway Commissioners, said last three members to be 
 appointed by their respective boards at their first meeting in the 
 month of May, the Superintendent of the Water Department, ex- 
 officio, and the Superintendent of the Sewer Department, ex-offiio. 
 
 SEC. 2. Election of Chairman and Clerk. Said Committee of 
 Public Works shall choose annually their own chairman and clerk 
 and shall meet at least monthly, and oftener if desired, upon the 
 call of the chairman of said committee or of any two members 
 thereof. 
 
 SEC. 3. Duties of Committee. Said Committee of Public Works 
 shall consider the methods, plans and times of doing all work in 
 and upon the streets of said city and shall endeavor so to arrange 
 for the doing of such work as to avoid confusion, waste and delay 
 in the execution thereof. 
 
 SEC. 4. Changes in Ordinances. Said Committee of Public 
 Works with the Committee on Ordinances shall recommend such 
 changes in the ordinances as may be necessary to require the differ- 
 ent commissions in said city to so plan their respective works and 
 improvements as not to conflict with other department work in the 
 same locality and to prohibit any work to be done upon the city 
 streets until seasonable notice thereof has been given, so that all 
 the city departments may, as the interests of the city may require, 
 anticipate such work and arrange therefore.
 
 STANDING RULES OF THE COMMON COUNCIL. 101 
 
 STANDING RULES OF THE COMMON 
 COUNCIL. 
 
 OPENING OF COUNCIL. 
 
 I. The Mayor, or in his absence the President pro tern, or if 
 both are absent, the Senior Alderman present shall preside, and 
 shall call the members to order ; and upon the call of the roll and 
 the appearance of a quorum, cause the records of the previous 
 meeting to be read, (if they have been printed or typewritten and 
 each member furnished with a copy, the reading can be omitted), 
 an opportunity shall be given that any mistakes in the same may 
 be corrected. 
 
 ORDER OF BUSINESS. 
 
 II. The business in order after the disposal of the records of 
 the previous meeting, shall be : first, reception and disposal of 
 petitions ; and each petition and memorial shall be referred to a 
 committee, unless the Council shall otherwise order ; second, 
 reading and disposal of reports of committees, reports of standing 
 committees to have preference ; third, unfinished business, includ- 
 ing " orders of the day " ; fourth, new business ; fifth, adjournment. 
 
 III. All communications, reports, etc., to the Council, whether 
 written or printed, shall be read unless it is voted to dispense with 
 their reading. 
 
 IV. Notice of hearings on building lines, changes of grades, 
 opening of or acceptance of streets, etc., before the Common 
 Council, shall set the time at least one half hour before the regular 
 meeting time, and the maps and profiles showing such changes to 
 be there for inspection, and the City Surveyor and Chairman of 
 the Committee having the same in charge, are to be in attendance, 
 to give all necessary information to interested parties. 
 
 V. Hearings before the Common Council are to open after 
 roll call, and the disposal of the records of the previous meeting.
 
 STANDING RULES OF THE COMMON COUNCIL. 
 
 PRESIDING OFFICER. 
 
 VI. The presiding officer shall preserve order and decorum ; 
 may speak to questions of order, or other questions in preference 
 to other members ; and shall decide questions of order, subject to 
 appeal to the Council by any member. 
 
 COMMITTEES HOW APPOINTED. 
 
 VII. Special Committees shall be appointed by the presiding 
 officer, unless otherwise specially directed ; and other Committees 
 may be chosen by nomination or resolution. 
 
 THOSE OFFERING PETITIONS, ETC., TO ENDORSE THEM. 
 
 VIII. Every petition, resolution, or memorial, shall be offered 
 by some member of the Council, who shall endorse thereon his 
 name, and hand the same to the presiding officer or City Clerk be- 
 fore action by the Council. 
 
 RULES OF DEBATE. 
 
 IX. When a member of the Council is about to speak, he 
 shall rise from his seat and respectfully address the presiding 
 officer, and must be recognized by him before he has the right to 
 the floor, (unless by a vote of the Council). Being recognized, 
 he shall confine himself to the question and avoid personalities or 
 imputing to any member improper motives ; and during debate, 
 or when the presiding officer or a member is speaking, no member 
 shall hold private discourse, or pass between the speaker and the 
 Chair. 
 
 CALLS TO ORDER. 
 
 X. If any member, in speaking or otherwise, transgresses the 
 rules of the Council, the Chair shall, or any member may, call 
 him to order, in which case the member so called to order, shall 
 sit down unless permitted to explain. In case of an appeal to the 
 Council, and a decision in favor of the member called to order, 
 he shall be at liberty to proceed ; otherwise he shall not be per- 
 mitted to proceed without leave of the Council.
 
 STANDING RULES OF THE COMMON COUNCIL. 103 
 
 MOTIONS. 
 
 XL When a motion is made it shall be stated by the presiding 
 officer, or being in writing, shall be read aloud before being de- 
 bated. Every motion shall be reduced to writing at the request 
 of the Chair, and every resolution or report shall be in writing 
 and signed by some member. 
 
 MEMBERS SHALL SPEAK BUT TWICE ON A QUESTION. 
 
 XII. No person shall speak more than twice on the same 
 question without leave of the Council, unless to explain. 
 
 WITHDRAWAL AND RECONSIDERATION OF MOTIONS. 
 
 XIII. When a motion is stated by the presiding officer, it shall 
 be deemed to be in possession of the Council, but may be with- 
 drawn at any time before decision or amendment, but not after 
 amendment, unless the Council gives leave ; and when a motion 
 has been carried, it shall be in order for any member in the major- 
 ity to move the reconsideration thereof, within two meetings after 
 the one at which such motion was carried, and such motion shall 
 take precedence of all questions, except a motion to adjourn. 
 
 PRECEDENCE OF MOTIONS RECEIVED DURING DEBATE. 
 
 XIV. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be 
 received but to adjourn, to lay on the table, to postpone to a day 
 certain, to commit or amend, or to postpone indefinitely, which 
 several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they 
 stand arranged. The motion to adjourn shall always be in order ; 
 and that, and the motion to lay on the table, (unless to a specified 
 time), shall be decided without debate. 
 
 YEAS AND NAYS. 
 
 XV. The yeas and nays shall be taken when called for by three 
 members ; and the names of the members shall be called in the 
 order of wards.
 
 104 STANDING RULES OF THE COMMON COUNCIL. 
 
 WHEN MEMBERS MAY BE EXCUSED FROM VOTING. 
 
 XVI. No member shall be excused from voting on any ques- 
 tion, unless he is personally interested in the result, or shall be 
 excused by a vote of the Council ; and no member shall be per- 
 mitted to vote after the decision is announced by the presiding 
 officer. 
 
 XVII. Questions arising on parliamentary ruling not covered 
 by these rules, shall be decided by the presiding officer in accord- 
 ance with Cushing's Manual. 
 
 SUSPENSION OF THE RULES. 
 
 XVIII. No rules shall be suspended, except by a vote of two- 
 thirds of the members present.
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX.
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX, 
 
 Abatement of taxes by finance committee, 82 
 
 of nuisances, / 39 
 
 Accounts and claims, ordinances concerning, 3 to 8 
 
 against city to be itemized, 3 
 
 authority required to contract, 3 
 
 due debtor of city, to be withheld, 5 
 
 how contracted and paid by health committee, 43 
 
 requiring certificate of corporation counsel, - 3 
 
 requiring certificate of city clerk, - 4 
 
 to be referred to committee on claims, - 4, 5 
 salaries and wages, orders for, to be approved 
 
 by mayor, 63 
 
 to be collected by the chief of police, - 8 
 
 what audited by auditor, - 8 
 Advertisements, see posters. 
 Alarm, false, see Fire. 
 
 Alderman, may issue warrants for collection of taxes, 82 
 
 Amusements, ordinances concerning, - - 8 to 10 
 
 license for, when necessary and how granted, 8, 9 
 
 Animals, ordinance concerning, 10 
 
 dead, conveying uncovered through the streets a 
 
 nuisance, 49 
 
 dead, when owner and when police to bury, - 51 
 
 dead, depositing in streets, a nuisance, - 49 
 
 fastening to a tree, a nuisance, 49 
 
 penalty for fastening to fire alarm poles, - 32 
 
 not to be at large, penalty, - 10 
 Appeals, see city and police court, assessments.
 
 108 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 Assembling, idly and in crowds, a nuisance, 50 
 
 Assessments, of damages, how paid, - 4, 5 
 
 hearings before street commissioners, 69 
 to be paid to and from street improvement 
 
 fund, - 77, 78 
 lists, city, rate-bill maker to prepare from town, 81 
 lists, taxes levied on last made of town, 81 
 of damages and benefits, notice of, 69 
 unpaid, to be reported to council, - 83 
 Assessor, town, when to assess real estate in city, and com- 
 pensation of, 8 1 
 Assistant attorney, compensation of, 62 
 
 see also corporation counsel, prosecuting attorney. 
 
 Assistant city clerk, duties of, salary, 48, 61 
 
 Assistant judge of city and police court, salary 62 
 
 Auditor, city, bond, 64 
 
 for what bills to draw orders on treasurer, - 3 
 order of, for salaries of city officers and police 
 
 force, 63 
 pay roll of street department, 63, 71 
 to draw order for pay roll of Health Depart- 
 ment, 45 
 to draw order for pay roll of Subway Department, 98 
 compensation of, 61 
 to report taxes and assessments uncollected, 82 
 duties of, 8, 6, 63, 71 
 orders by, how authorized, 3 
 mayor to approve orders of, for pay rolls and sal- 
 aries, . 3, 63 
 orders of, to specify nature of claims, - 3 
 to report when approved bills exceed appro- 7 
 priations, 7 
 to keep classification book and duties of, concern- 
 ing, 6 
 to keep books, 7
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. lOd 
 
 Auditor, to make quarterly reports, 99 
 
 to classify claims, 6 
 
 to report monthly, 6 
 
 to report when bills exceed appropriation, - 7 
 
 finance committee to instruct, 7 
 
 Badges, see police, 55 
 
 Ball playing in streets a nuisance, 5 1 
 
 Barns and stables, lights, &c., in, 31 
 
 Bells, hand, ringing of, when a nuisance, 50 
 
 on horses, sleighs, etc., 50 
 Benefits and damages, see assessments, 
 
 Bills, posting restricted, - 10 
 
 tearing down, penalty, 10 
 
 to be itemized, 3 
 
 Boating, &c., on Shuttle Meadow lake, prohibited, 93 
 
 Board of health, see health committee. 
 
 street commissioners, see street commissioners, 
 fire commissioners, see fire commissioners, 
 police commissioners, see police commissioners, 
 sewer commissioners, see sewer commissioners, 
 water commissioners, see water commissioners, 
 subway commissioners, see subway commissioners, 
 
 relief, finance committee, to act as, - 81 
 
 Bonds, neglect or refusal to give, vacates what offices, 63, 64 
 
 of city officers, requisites of,, - 63, 64 
 
 amount of penalty of, 64 
 
 of disbursing officers and committees, - 64 
 
 of sewer commissioners, - 65 
 
 of street commissioner, 64, 69 
 
 of water commissioners, . 64, 91 
 
 of subway commissioners, 64, 97 
 
 of chairman of police commissioners, 64, 99
 
 110 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 Bonds, to accompany proposals for contracts, 13, 14 
 ordinances concerning, 61 to 65 
 when streets and sidewalks are excavated, or ob- 
 structed, 71 
 
 Bonfires and fireworks in streets or parks, 32 
 
 Building, inspector, powers and duties of, 22 
 
 inspector, resisting, penalty, 25 
 
 to act as fire marshal, penalty, 25 
 
 permits, within fire district to be approved by 
 
 council, 22 
 
 permits, good for one year, 26 
 
 when required, and how obtained. 15, 21 
 
 to be recorded, - - . - - . ic 
 
 / * 
 
 materials in streets without license a nuisance, 50 
 
 Buildings, ordinance concerning, 15 to 26 
 
 ordinance not retroactive, 23 
 
 ordinance not to apply to buildings in course of 
 
 construction, 23 
 
 plans to be approved, 40 
 
 alterations to be made at cost of owner, . 25 
 
 backing of walls of, 19 
 
 walls of, mortar for, 19 
 
 and encroachments, committee on, duties of, 22 
 and encroachments, committee on, may order 
 
 correction of defects in buildings, 24 
 
 permits by, 15, 21 
 
 endangering fire near or in, a nuisance, 51 
 heading courses in walls of, '19 
 house plans to be approved by health com- 
 mittee, 40 
 inspector of, to act as fire marshal, 25 
 appointment and pay of, 37, 38 
 qualifications of, 38 
 to enforce law concerning fire escapes, 24 
 to keep a record, . 25
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. HI 
 
 Buildings, inspector of, may order stay of progress, 24 
 alteration of buildings under direction 
 
 of, 21 
 
 penalty for resisting, 25 
 
 to investigate fines, 26 
 
 lights, matches, etc., in, prohibited', 31 
 
 may be raised Jfor new roofing, when, 20 
 
 notice of alteration of plans of, how given, 23 
 
 office, tenement and store how constructed, 18 
 
 orders of council concerning, how enforced, 25 
 
 outside walls and chimneys, 17, 20 
 
 foundation walls of, 18 
 
 party walls of, how constructed, 17 
 penalties for violation of ordinance on erection 
 
 of, 23 
 
 permits for, fees of, and to whom paid, 23 
 plans and specifications of, etc., to be submitted 
 
 to inspector of buildings, - 22, 40 
 plumbing in. to be approved before work on, 40 
 removed to rear of lot without permit, when, 24 
 under supervision of inspector, 24 
 unsafe, fire escapes, 24 
 fence, or enclosure, defacing or soiling, a nui- 
 sance, 50 
 gates or fence, erecting in streets, a nuisance, 49 
 accumulating combustible materials in, when a 
 
 nuisance, 51 
 
 egress from, 24 
 
 walls of, faced with ashlar, . 19 
 
 walls of, how united and anchored, 19 
 walls of within fire districts, . 17, 18, 19 
 
 when may be demolished in case of fire, 27 
 
 wood work on, to be protected etc., 20, 24 
 
 moving through streets, 15, 70 
 
 materials and construction of walls. 17 
 
 frames repaired in fire district, 21 
 
 change in plans, 23 
 
 Burials, - 41
 
 112 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 c 
 
 Calls to order, . - - 102 
 Carriages to be disinfected, when, 42 
 Cars, stoppage of in case of emergency, - 67 
 ordinances concerning, - 67, 68 
 Cesspools, how cleaned, - - 52 
 how constructed. - 52 
 Charges against policemen, causes for preferring, - 56 
 Chicken pens, when a nuisance, 48 
 Chimneys, how constructed in fire district, 20 
 Church, assembling idly and in crowds before, a nui- 
 sance, 50 
 City Auditor, see auditor. 
 
 City Clerk, bond of, 63, 64 
 powers and duties, 7, 48, 80 
 salary, . 61 
 to be clerk of committee on licenses, and du- 
 ties of, . 9 
 certificate of, required in claims for damages, 5 
 to furnish auditor certified copies of votes to 
 
 pay accounts, - 53 
 to pay fire department, 30 
 to pay street department, - 71 
 to pay health department, 45 
 to pay subway department, 99 
 to be clerk of all committees, 48 
 to keep books of street department, 48 
 to keep properly indexed records of proceed- 
 ings of city and common council, 48 
 to keep record of accounts due city, 7 
 to keep contracts on file, 13 
 to record warrants for city and common coun- 
 cil meetings, 47 
 to sign certificates of honorary membership of 
 
 fire department, 30
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. 113 
 
 City Clerk, assistant, powers and duties, - 48 
 
 assessment list to be deposited with, 81 
 
 to have custody of work of street lighting com- 
 mittee, 79 
 to have custody of supplies, - 80 
 to administer oath to policemen, 56 
 duties of, in cases of claims for damages to 
 
 person or property, 5 
 
 duties of, in claims for damages on account of 
 
 defective streets or sidewalks, - 6 
 
 field book of city surveyor, to be deposited with, n 
 ordinances to be deposited with, . . 95 
 
 records of health committee to be kept in office 
 
 of, 38 
 
 to record report of water commissioners, 91 
 
 to withhold order for payment to debtor of city, 5 
 City Collector, see collector. 
 
 City Court, judge, salary of, . , . .61 
 
 clerk, bond, and effect of neglect or refusal to give, 64 
 
 salary, ..... 62 
 
 City Surveyor, see surveyor. 
 City meetings, see meetings. 
 
 City officers, election, term of office, ... 14 
 
 auditing accounts of, . 8 
 
 compensation of, . . . 61 to 63 
 
 City rate bill maker, see rate bill maker. 
 sheriff, see sheriff, 
 surveyor, see surveyor, 
 treasurer, see treasurer, 
 health officer, see health officer. 
 Claims for public improvements to be certified by city 
 
 clerk, ..... 4 
 
 not to be paid unless approved by corporation 
 counsel, ... 6 
 
 against city to be filed in classification book, 6
 
 114 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 Claims, to be paid in order by orders drawn by auditor 
 
 and presented, . . * . 4 
 
 to be filed by city clerk, .... 7 
 
 to notify responsible party of hearing in damage 
 
 cases, . . . . , . 5 
 
 committee not to approve bills of street commis- 
 sioner, when, ..... 5 
 
 committee, appointment of and duties, . 4 
 
 Classification book, to be kept by auditor, . . 6 
 
 Clerk of city, see city clerk. 
 
 and police courts, see city and police courts, 
 fire companies, see fire department, 
 board of street commissioners, see streets, 
 police commissioners, compensation, . 63 
 
 fire commissioners, compensation, . . 62 
 
 sewer commissioners, salary, . . .62 
 
 water commissioners, salary, . . 62, 69 
 
 subway commissioners, salary, . . 63 
 
 committee on public works, appointment, . TOO 
 
 all committees, ... 48 
 
 Coasting, see nuisance. 
 
 Collector, powers and duties, bond, and effect of neglect to 
 
 give, . 63, 64 
 
 compensation, .... 63 
 
 limit of time of collecting rate bill, . . 82 
 
 accounts of, how audited, ... 82 
 
 Committee, health, see health. 
 
 finance, see finance. 
 
 license, see license. 
 
 sinking fund, see sinking fund. 
 
 supplies, see supplies. 
 
 special, of common council, . . 102 
 
 on street lighting, see street lighting. 
 
 of public works, see public works, . 100
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. H5 
 
 Committee, of public works, ordinance concerning, &;, 100 
 
 chairman and clerk, election, . 100 
 
 meetings, . . . .100 
 
 duties of, . . . . ioo 
 
 ordinance, changes in, to be suggested, ioo 
 
 Communications, .-" . . . . 101 
 
 Common Council, when to regulate mode and materials of 
 
 building, and alterations in buildings, 18, 19, 20, 21 
 new streets not to be opened without consent of, 73 
 
 to authorize orders upon the treasurer, . 4 
 
 meetings of, time, and how called, . 47, 48 
 
 standing rules of, . . . 101 to 104 
 
 to fix pay of janitor city building, . . 58 
 
 unpaid taxes to be reported to, . . 82, 83 
 
 to control street lighting, . . .78 
 
 to appoint sanitary inspector and fix compensation, 37 
 building permits granted by, when, . 15, 21 
 
 to choose city officers, when and how, . 14 
 
 to fill vacancies in office, how, . . .14 
 
 to elect city surveyor, . . . 1 1 
 
 orders of concerning buildings how enforced, . 25 
 not to order payment of claims unless acted 
 
 upon by committee, .... 5 
 
 orders of relative to streets, how executed, 69 
 
 presiding officer of, . . . 101 
 
 to serve notice of violation of ordinance on erec- 
 tion of buildings, . . . .22 
 special committees of, . . . 102 
 Compensation, board of street commissioners, . . 62,68 
 clerk of board of street commissioners, 62, 68 
 fire department, members of, . 28, 29, 63 
 when forfeited, . . 29 
 rate-bill maker and assessor, . . 62, 82 
 sewer commissioners, , . 62, 65 
 street commissioner, . . . 62 
 water commissioners, . . 62, 91 
 of other city officers, . . .62, 63
 
 116 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 Constables, policemen acting as, . . . 57 
 
 Conduits, see subways, . . . . -97 
 
 construction of, . . . 97 
 
 Contagious diseases, see health, 
 
 Contracts, ordinances concerning, . . . 13, 14 
 
 for supplies, how made, . . .80 
 
 not to be assigned without assent of city, . 14 
 
 when binding, . . . . . 3, 80 
 
 city officers to have no interest in, . . 13 
 
 security for performance of, . .14 
 
 home labor on, to be given preference, . 13 
 for labor and materials, how made, and by 
 
 whom kept, . . . . 13, 14 
 
 proposals for, to be advertised, . . 13. 
 
 proposals for, how made, . . . 13 
 
 street commissioner may make provisional, . 70 
 
 for work and materials for streets, . . 69, 70 
 
 construction of subway conduits, etc., . 97 
 Conveyances, see public conveyances. 
 
 Corporation counsel powers and duties of, . 5, 6, 7 
 
 duties of, in claims for damages against city, 5, 6 
 
 salary of, . . . .62 
 
 to certify judgment against city when, . 3 
 to attend meetings of committee on claims 
 
 when, ..... 5 
 
 to approve of claims for damages, . . 6 
 
 Crosswalks, permitting vehicles to remain on, a nuisance, 49 
 
 assembling idly and in crowds on, a nuisance, 50 
 
 repairs of, contracts concerning, &c., . 70 
 
 Damages and benefits, see assessment. 
 
 Dead animals, see nuisance. 
 
 Departments' books examined, . . 89
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. 117 
 
 Debate, rules of, ..... 102 
 
 Drainage, see health. 
 
 Drains and sewers, see sewers. 
 
 Dismissions, see fire department. 
 
 Driving horses without bells, . . . .. 50 
 
 Dwelling, see building. 
 
 Dynamite, keeping or transporting, ... 87 
 
 Elections, of city officers, ordinances concerning, 14, 96 
 
 Engineer, city, when to make a map of defective street or 
 
 sidewalk, ..... 6 
 
 see also surveyor. 
 
 chief, and assistant, see also fire department. 
 Erection of buildings, see buildings. 
 
 ordinances concerning, . 15 to 26 
 
 Examination of books of departments, . . 99 
 
 Exhibitions, see amusements. 
 Expenditures, health department, ... 43 
 
 Fare, rates of, &c., how displayed, . . 59, 60 
 
 Fast driving, a nuisance, .... 50 
 
 Fees for trade license, prescribed by license committee, 87 
 
 license, when paid to city clerk, ... 9 
 
 license, public conveyances, amount, and to whom 
 
 paid, 59 
 
 sealer of weights and measures, . . 87 to 90 
 
 Fence, gate, or building, in streets, a nuisance, . . 49 
 
 Filth, a nuisance, . 49 
 
 see also nuisance.
 
 118 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 Finance committee, treasurer to report to, each month, 7 
 
 to appoint rate maker, . . ? 81 
 
 to meet as board of relief, when, . 81 
 
 to abate taxes, when, . . . . 82 
 to instruct auditor in case of deficiency 
 
 in treasury, ... 7 
 see also, committee. 
 
 Fines, penalties, and forfeitures, also see penalties, . 30 
 
 Fire, ordinances concerning, . . . 26 to 35 
 
 alarm, false, penalty, . . . . .30 
 
 apparatus, taking beyond city limits, . . 30 
 
 ladders, penalty for removing, . . .31 
 
 district, prescribed by whom, and area of, . 16 
 
 map of, . . . . .17 
 
 endangering, penalty for, 31 
 alarm telegraph poles and boxes, penalty for damaging, 32 
 
 Fire Marshal, building inspector to act as, 25 
 
 duties of, . . . .25 
 
 to investigate all fires, . . . 25 
 
 penalty for not complying to order of, . 25 
 
 Firearms, discharging of prohibited, V 32 
 
 Fireworks, discharging, penalty, . 32 
 
 Fire commissioners, power and duties, 26 
 
 clerk of, to make pay-roll, . . .30 
 
 written, order for delivery of goods, . 33 
 
 bills, how presented to, ... 33 
 
 how approved by, ... 33 
 
 to keep set of books, . . . -33 
 
 official acts of, how approved, . . 33 
 
 supplies, how purchased, by, . . .34 
 
 to advertise for bids, ... 34 
 
 finance committee to examine accounts of, 
 
 to make up estimates, . . 34 
 
 to inventory property, . . . 34
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. 119 
 
 Fire commissioners, purchases to be reported by, . 34 
 
 bond of chairman of, . . 35, 63, 64 
 
 chairman of, salary, . . . 34, 62 
 
 companies, number and appointment of men in, . 26 
 
 absence of members from fires, penalty, . 30 
 
 officers of, duties, . . . , 26, 27, 28 
 
 clerk of, appointment and duties, . . 28 
 
 foreman of, duties, ... 28 
 
 fines of members, . . . .30 
 
 Fire department, fire commissioners to organize and control, 26 
 consists of what, . . . .26 
 
 annual inspection, . . . 31 
 
 officers of, .... 25 
 
 chief and assistant engineer, duty relative 
 
 to manufacturing establishments, . 27 
 
 chief engineer, duties, powers, and salaries 
 
 of, . . 26, 27, 63 
 
 assistant engineer, duties, and powers, 27 
 
 dismissal of members, . . .31 
 
 compensation and pay-roll of, . 28, 29, 30, 63 
 compensation, when forfeited, . . 29 
 
 honorary members of, . . 30 
 
 assistant engineer of, salary, . 27, 28, 63 
 
 members of, salaries, . . 26, 28, 63 
 
 district, map of, . . . . .16 
 
 escapes, inspector of .buildings to enforce laws con- 
 cerning, . . . . . .24 
 
 false alarm of, penalty for giving, . . 30 
 
 implements, penalty for removing or using, . . 31 
 
 marshal, inspector of buildings to act as, penalty, 25 
 
 duties of, . . . . . 25 
 
 to investigate cause of all fires, . 26 
 
 Firemen, how appointed, . . . . .26 
 
 removed or expelled, . . 30, 31 
 
 substitute, pay of, ... 29 
 
 fines and discipline of, . . 28, 29, 30, 31
 
 120 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 Fires, cause of, to be investigated, . . .29 
 
 endangering, a nuisance, . . . 51 
 
 police to attend, . . . . . 1 55 
 
 Fireworks not to cause annoyance, ... 32 
 
 discharge of by minors, parents liable, . 32 
 
 in public streets or parks prohibited, . 32 
 
 throwing matches in barns or buildings prohibited, 31 
 
 Fishing in Shuttle meadow lake, ... 93 
 
 Flues, how constructed in fire district, . . ao 
 
 how guarded, ..... 20, 21 
 
 see also buildings, 
 
 Fraudulent weights and measures, penalty for using, v . 38 
 
 Funerals, public, prohibited when, . . .41 
 
 Furnishing supplies, etc., . 99 
 
 Garbage, in streets, a nuisance, . . . 44, 49 
 
 nature of, and how removed, . . 44 
 
 by whom removed, . . . .44 
 chairman and sanitary inspector to have carried 
 
 out, the provision of, ordinance on, . . 44 
 
 meaning of the word, ... 44 
 
 violation of ordinance on, penalty, . . 44 
 
 Garden, or yard, trespassing in, a nuisance, . 50 
 
 Gaslights and lamps, injury to, penalty, . . .79 
 
 Grass, walking on, a nuisance, ... 50 
 
 Gun, see firearms. 
 
 Gunpowder, keeping above one pound, requires license, 86 
 
 limit and mode of keeping, . . .86 
 
 transporting through city, . . 86 
 
 violating ordinance relative to, penalty, . 87 
 
 Gutters and sidewalks, see sidewalks.
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. 121 
 
 H 
 
 Hacks, see public conveyances. 
 
 to be disinfected, when, ... 42 
 Hall, public, unlicensed exhibitions in, . .9 
 Health, ordinances concerning, . . 37 to 46 
 carriages and cars to be disinfected, . . 42 
 nuisances abated .... 39 
 building plans to be approved, . . .40 
 penalty for violating ordinance, . . 40 
 penalty for removal of contagious sick, . . 42 
 penalty for violating ordinance relating to conta- 
 gious diseases, 42 
 sleeping rooms, size of, ... 43 
 expenditures by committee, limited, . .43 
 plumber, license, .... 43 
 penalty for violation of plumbers' laws, . . 44 
 garbage, carrier of, .... 44 
 meaning of word garbage, . . .44 
 violation of health ordinance, ... 44 
 laborers, how paid, . . . 45, 63 
 milk inspector, appointment and term, . 45 
 powers and compensation of, . . 45 
 annual report of, . . 45 
 to have dealers registered, . . ^ 46 
 Health officer, city, see statute of state. 
 
 compensation or salary of, . . 62 
 duties of, . 37, 39, 40, 41, 42 
 to enforce the law, ... 39 
 to quarantine contagious cases or order re- 
 moval to proper place, . . 4 
 to disinfect houses, . . 4 1 
 physicians to report to, . . 4 1 
 to certify if danger is passed, . 4 1 
 to give consent for public funerals in case of 
 
 contagious disease, . - 4 r > 4 2
 
 122 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 Health officer, to give permit for removal, . . 41 
 
 to give permit to enter city, . . 42 
 
 carriages, &c., to be disinfected to satisfaction of, 42 
 
 Health committee, council to appoint, . . -37 
 
 powers and duties of, . . 37, 38 
 
 orders, how given, and penalty for neg- . 
 
 lect, 39, 40 
 
 cases of diseases to be reported to health 
 
 officer, .... 40 
 
 public funerals, prohibited, . . 41 
 
 notices of, not to be torn down, . 42 
 
 to report violations of ordinances to 
 
 prosecuting attorney, . . 43 
 
 chairman of, appointment and duties, 37 
 
 clerk of, .... 38 
 
 not to delegate its duties to one member, 43 
 to draw up rules concerning plumbing 
 
 and drainage, ... -39 
 
 may quarantine houses, . . 40, 42 
 
 milk inspector, appointment, . . 45 
 
 power, duties and compensation, 45, 46 
 
 annual report of, . . . 45 
 
 registration of dealers, . 46 
 
 to inspect plumbing and drainage, . 39 
 
 issue certificates approving plumbing, 40 
 
 majority of, to authorize expenditures, 43 
 
 records of, how and where kept, . 38 
 
 records of, to be public, . . 33 
 
 duties of physicians in cases of contagious disease, 41 
 
 milk inspections, .... 45, 46 
 
 malignant contagious diseases, how to be reported, 40, 41 
 
 penalty for removal of exposed clothing, &c., . 41 
 
 physicians to report certain diseases to board of, 41 
 
 persons or articles exposed to disease not to be 
 
 brought into city, .... 42
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. K'3 
 
 Health, persons exposed to disease not to attend school, &c., 41 
 
 size of sleeping rooms prescribed, . . 43 
 
 teachers to report contagious diseases, . . 41 
 
 Hearings before street commissioners, . . 69 
 
 before the common council, . . . 101 
 
 Hearths, how constructed in fire district, . . 20 
 
 Hens, see nuisance. 
 
 Highways and streets, see streets. 
 
 Hook and ladder, and hose companies, see fire department. 
 
 Hydrants, access to, penalty for obstructing, . . 94 
 
 I 
 
 Ice and snow on sidewalk,, removal of, . . 73 
 
 Incumbrances on railroad tracks, ordinances concerning, 46 
 
 highway, not to be blocked, . . 46 
 
 penalty, .... 46 
 
 Inspector buildings, see buildings. 
 
 J 
 
 Janitor of city cuilding, how appointed and paid, . 58 
 Judgments against city to be certified by corporation coun- 
 
 sel, 3 
 
 Jurors, ordinances concerning, penalty, . . .46 
 
 Laborers, pay of, 45, 63, 71, 98 
 
 Ladders, see fire department. 
 
 License, to keep and transport gunpowder, . . 86 
 
 to make sales on streets, . . . . 84 
 
 what revocable by license committee, . 9 
 
 when to be returned to clerk of committee, . 10 
 
 by whom granted, . . . 8, 9, 10 
 
 to be issued by city clerk, ... 10
 
 124 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 License, for public conveyance, . . . .59 
 
 . fees, to whom paid, .... 9 
 
 fees, how fixed, . . . -59. 84, 85 
 
 for building, . . . . . je 
 
 required for public exhibitions, ... 9 
 
 to be issued by clerk of license committee, . 9 
 
 street venders to have, . , . .84 
 
 committee, duties of, . . . 8, 9, 84, 85, 87 
 
 clerk of, to be city clerk, . . 9 
 
 clerk of, duties, . . . 9, 10 
 
 to fix fees, . . . . 9, 87 
 
 see also committee. 
 
 Lien, for expense of connecting property with sewers, &c., 71 
 
 for expense of removal of ice and snow, . -73 
 
 Lights, cigars, &c., in barns and stables, . . .31 
 
 public, injury to, penalty, ... 79 
 
 street, to be numbered and designated by number, 79 
 
 Lighting of streets, see street lighting. 
 
 M 
 
 Malignant contagious diseases, powers of health committee, 
 
 in regard to,. . . 40, 41, 42 
 
 physicians and teachers to report cases 
 
 of ..... 41 
 
 Manure, see nuisance. 
 
 Maps, how preserved, . . . . . n 
 
 by whom made and prepared, . . .11 
 
 materials for, how supplied, . . . 12 
 
 Markets, health committee may order purified, . . 38 
 
 Materials, building, in streets, when a nuisance, . 50 
 
 Mayor, power and duties, ... 7, 65, 67, 101 
 
 assignment of contract requires assent of, . 14 
 
 chief of police under direction of, . 54, 55 
 
 to approve salary orders of auditor, . . 63 
 
 to call meetings of city and common council, . 47 
 
 to countersign permits of chief of police, . 32
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. 125 
 
 Mayor, to sign certificates of honorary membership of fire 
 
 department, . , . -3 
 
 to sign warrants for collection of rate-bills, . 82 
 
 a member of sinking fund committee, . . 8 
 
 salary of, 61 
 
 to approve pay-roll of street department, . 71 
 
 to approve pay-roll of health department, . 45 
 
 to approve pay-roll of subway department, . 98 
 
 new ordinances to be printed in annual report of, 53 
 
 Measures, see weights and measures, 
 
 Meetings, city and common council, ordinances concern- 
 ing* 47, 48 
 objects to be stated in warrants for, 47 
 warrants for, how served, . 47 
 clerk of, to be city clerk, . . 48 
 common council, stated monthly and annual, 
 
 hour of, '. 47, 4 8 
 
 how called, ... 47 
 
 rules governing and order of bus- 
 iness, . 101, 102, 103, 104 
 city, by whom called. - 47 
 special city and council, ... 47 
 Milk, inspection of, .... 45, 46 
 condemned, penalty for selling, see statute, 
 inspector, see health ordinance, . . 45, 46 
 Minor, or apprentice, liability of parent or guardian 
 
 for, 32 
 
 Mortar beds, in streets, a nuisance, ... 50 
 
 Motions, how presented, ..... 103 
 
 withdrawal and reconsideration of, . 103 
 
 precedence of, . . . . 103 
 
 N 
 
 Night soil, see nuisance. 
 Nitro-glycerine, keeping or transporting, . . .87
 
 126 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 Noise, loud, in streets at night, a nuisance, . . 50 
 Notice of violation of ordinance on erection of buildings, 
 
 how made, . . . . . 22 
 
 Notices, and orders, published only once, . . 53 
 
 of board of street commissioners, how given, 69 
 
 Nuisance, ordinances concerning, . . 48 to 52 
 
 absence of sleigh bells, ... 50 
 
 injuring buildings, plants, &c., . . 50 
 
 dead animals to be buried by owners, . 51 
 
 night soil, how transported, . . .52 
 
 privies and cess-pools, . . . 52 
 
 fastening animals to trees, . . .49 
 
 encroaching on highway, ... 49 
 
 filth and privies,, .... 49 
 
 manure, garbage and stable bedding, . . 49 
 
 foul water, ..... 49 
 
 offal, papers, dirt, ashes, &c., . . .49 
 
 horses and wagons on crosswalks and sidewalks, 49 
 
 injuring grass and shrubbery, . . .50 
 
 making boisterous noises, ... 50 
 
 keeping swine, ... .48 
 
 keeping pig pens, , 48 
 
 keeping hens in coops, . . 48 
 
 playing ball in streets, . . . 51 
 shooting with sling or air guns within the city 
 
 limits, . . . ... 51 
 
 endangering fires, . .51 
 
 penalties for committing, . . . 51 
 
 privies and vaults, how built and disinfected, . 52 
 
 failure to connect with sewer, . . 52 
 
 resisting officers or street commissioner, . 50 
 
 signs across sidewalks, ... 50 
 
 assembling in crowds, . . . .50 
 
 sliding down hill in streets, . . . 51 
 ringing bells, t ... 50
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. 127 
 
 Nuisance, trespassing, ..... 50 
 
 obstructing streets with building material, . 50 
 
 speeding horses, .... 50 
 
 street vending, . . . . .50 
 
 acts constituting, . . 48, 49, 50, 51 
 
 street commissioner's duty relative to, . . 69 
 
 duties and powers of health committee concern- 
 ing, . 3 8 > 39 
 
 O 
 
 Oaths, of city officers, 65 
 
 Offal, manure, etc, when a nuisance, penalty, . 49, 51 
 
 Officers, city, auditor to pay monthly, semi-monthly and 
 
 weekly, . . . . 63 
 
 disbursing, to give bonds, ... 64 
 
 resisting, when a nuisance, . 51 
 Office, supplies, see supplies. 
 
 Order of business, ..... 101 
 
 Orders and notices published only once, . . 53 
 
 of auditor, to specify nature of claims, . . 4 
 
 of auditor, when to be drawn, ... 4 
 
 Ordinances, . . . . . 3 to 104 
 
 publication of, and certificate of, . 53, 95 
 
 revised, when to take effect, . . -95 
 
 revised, not to be published in a newspaper, 95 
 
 copy of to be recorded, . . -95 
 
 changes in, to be recommended, . . 100 
 
 how printed, . . . . 53> 95 
 
 revision of, to take effect when, . . 95 
 
 record copy of, ... 95 
 
 when operative, . . 53> 95 
 
 former, repealed when, 53 
 
 concerning ordinances, . 53> 95 
 
 new, and amendments of, to be printed in 
 
 annual report, . . . , 53
 
 128 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 P 
 
 Papers, loose, see nuisance. 
 
 Parents, liable for acts of children when, . . 32 
 
 Parks, tramping on grass and injuring, . .50 
 
 Party walls, see buildings. 
 
 Pay roll, of street commissioner, when and how made, . 71 
 of fire department, how, when, and by whom 
 made, ... . 29, 30 
 
 of health department, how, when, and by whom 
 
 made, - 45 
 
 of subway department, how when, and by whom 
 
 made, 98 
 
 Peddlers, weights, measures, and scales of, penalty, . 84, 85 
 
 to be licensed when, badge, . . 84, 85 
 
 Peddling, and auctioneer, .... 85 
 
 Penalties, failure to comply with subway rules and laws, . 98 
 
 Permits for buildings, see buildings. 
 
 Petitions to council, how presented, . . . 102 
 
 Physicians, see health. 
 
 Pig pens, a nuisance when, . . . .48 
 
 Pipes, connections with, in paved street without permit, 
 
 prohibited, . . . . .72 
 
 Plumbers, to make monthly reports of changes in water 
 
 service, . . . . .92 
 
 not to work until approval of plans, . 40 
 
 violating water ordinance, . . .92 
 
 Plumbing and drainage, powers of health committee over, 39 
 
 see also health. 
 
 Police, ordinances concerning, . . '. 54 to 58 
 
 to consist of, . . ... . 54 
 
 duties of, conduct of, . . . . 55, 57 
 
 compensation of, . . . 56, 63 
 
 chief, and captain of, and duties, also patrol- 
 men, , . . . 7, 54 to 59, 68
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. 129 
 
 Police, chief, and captain of, salaries, . . 56, 63 
 expenditures of how approved, . .54 
 permit of, relative to fire crackers and fire- 
 works, . . . . .32 
 to collect accounts due city, . . 8 
 licenses by, for public conveyances, . 59 
 to issue licenses for discharging firearms, 32 
 to inform city clerk of accounts due city, 7 
 detailed for fires. . -. . 58 
 to attend fires, . . . .58 
 not to allow parties inside lines, who ex- 
 
 cepted, ..... 58 
 
 to report street lamps not lighted, . 57 
 
 to report uncleaned sidewalks, . . 57 
 
 acting as town officer, etc., . . 57 
 
 to be paid semi-monthly by auditor, . 63 
 
 engaging in private business by, prohibited, 57 
 
 force, how constituted, ... 54 
 
 qualifications of, . . . .56 
 
 not to take present or reward, . . 56 
 
 when to wear badges, . . 55 
 
 supernumerary, fire detail, . . 54, 58 
 
 to assign to city their interest in all taxable fees, 56 
 
 to assist sealer of weights and measures, . 90 
 
 to notify owner of dead animal to bury the same, 51 
 
 acts of, deemed tender of resignation, . 57 
 
 charges against, causes for, . . 56, 57 
 
 resisting or not dispersing at orders of, when a nui- 
 sance, ...... 50 
 
 commissioners, powers and duties, . 54, 58 
 
 clerk of, salary , 63 
 
 to appoint janitor for city building, 58 
 
 court, judge of, . . . . .. 61 
 
 to approve expenditures of chief of 
 
 police, , , 54? 55
 
 130 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 Police court, clerk of, powers, duties, salary and 
 
 bond, 55, 62, 64, 65 
 
 hre, see fire department, 
 
 Posters, not to be destroyed, penalty, . . ., . 10 
 
 Presiding officer, see elections, meetings, also of common 
 
 council, .... 102 
 
 President pro tern of council, to be member of sinking fund 
 
 committee, . . 8 
 
 to call meetings, when, . . . .47 
 
 when to preside at meeting of council, . 47 
 
 Printing, orders and notices, how published, . . 53 
 
 Privies and cess-pools, where and how to build, . 52 
 
 to be kept clean and disinfected, . . .52 
 
 contents, how and when conveyed through streets, 52 
 
 vaults of, penalty . . . . 52 
 
 offensive, a nuisance, .... 49 
 
 to be connected with sewers, . . . , . 52 
 
 Prosecuting attorney and assistant attorney, see charter. 
 
 to prosecute violations of ordinance on 
 
 health,. .... 43 
 
 salary of, 62 
 
 Public conveyances, public carriages, etc., ordinances con- 
 cerning, 59 to 6 1 
 what deemed such. - 59 
 how licensed, . 59 
 violation of ordinance relative to, 
 
 penalty 60, 61 
 
 rates of fare in, 59, 60 
 
 owner's name, etc., on, . 60 
 
 penalty for violation of section i, 2, 
 
 3> 4, 5> 60 
 
 penalty for violating section 7, on, 61 
 
 license fee for, 59 
 
 waiting stand of, 60
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. Igl 
 
 Public hall, what deemed such, o 
 unlicensed exhibitions in, penalty, 2 
 Public works, committee of, membership list of, 100 
 chairman and clerk, election of, - 100 
 meetings of, . 100 
 duties of, - ioo 
 ordinance, changes in to be recom- 
 mended, - ioo 
 
 Q 
 
 Quarantine and quarantined houses, 42 
 
 of malignant, contagious diseases, 40, 41, 42 
 
 warning notices, interfering with, penalty, 42 
 
 Questions, times to speak upon, - - 103 
 
 on parliamentary ruling, how decided. 104 
 
 Racing horses in streets, a nuisance, . 50 
 
 Railroad tracks, ordinance concerning incumbrances on, 46 
 
 Rate-bill maker, appointment and duty, oath,- . Si, 82 
 
 pay of, qualification, 62, 82 
 
 Records of city surveyor, n 
 
 committee on licenses, 10 
 
 city clerk, 7, 47 
 
 auditor, 6, 7 
 
 committee on street lighting, . 79 
 
 street commissioner, - 70 
 
 street commissioners, 68 
 
 sewer commissioners, 66 
 
 fire commissioners, -28, 33 
 
 subway commissioners, 97 
 
 chief of police, 32, 59 
 
 chief engineer, 26, 27 
 
 committee on buildings and encroachments, 15, 22
 
 132 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 Records of building inspector, 25 
 
 committee on health, 38 
 
 city and common council, city clerk to properly 
 
 index, - 48 
 
 Rentals, subways, 98 
 
 Reports of all kinds, to be read, . 101 
 
 of sewer commissioners, 67 
 
 street commissioner, 70 
 
 subway commissioners, 97 
 
 fire commissioners, 27 
 
 police commissioners, . 54 
 
 treasurer, 78 
 
 water commissioners, 91 
 
 chief engineer, 27 
 
 Resignation, acts of policemen involving, 56 
 
 Resisting officers, a nuisance, 50 
 
 Restriction of commission, ordinance concerning, 99 
 
 auditor to make quarterly reports, 99 
 
 bond of chairman of police commissioners, 99 
 
 examination of books of departments, 99 
 
 furnishing supplies, penalty, 99 
 
 Rewards, policemen forbidden to receive, 56 
 
 Roofs, how built within fire district, - 20 
 
 Rules of common council, suspension of, - 101 to 104 
 
 Rules of debate at council meetings, 102 
 
 Rules and regulations, use of subway,, 98 
 
 Rules, suspension of, - 104 
 
 S 
 
 Salaries, of city officers and powers of council relative 
 
 to, 6 i to 63, 97 
 employees, 61 to 63, 97 
 of chief and captain of police, 56, 63 
 of members of police force, conditional on assign- 
 ing fees, . 56, 63
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. 133 
 
 Salaries, when and how to be paid, 63 
 
 and bonds, ordinances concerning, 6 1 to 65 
 
 and penalties of, bonds, 64 
 
 disbursing officers and committee. 64 
 
 surety bonds required, duties of mayor, 65 
 
 Sales on streets, what require license, 84, 85 
 
 Sanitary inspector, appointment, qualifications and duties, 
 
 37, 3 8 40 
 
 to investigate plumbing and drainage, - 39 
 
 to establish rules concerning plumbing, 39 
 
 to issue certificates approving plumbing, 40 
 
 salary of, 62 
 
 Scales, see weights and measures. 
 
 Schools, see health. 
 
 Sealer of weights and measures, see weights and measures, 
 
 87 to 89 
 
 Sewers and drains, ordinances concerning, 65 to 67 
 
 steam in, 66 
 
 new, 66 
 
 bills, how paid, 66 
 
 connections, when to be made, 52, 67 
 
 commissioners, powers and duties, 66, 67 
 
 Sewer commissioners, to keep record of their official pro- 
 ceedings, . . . .66 
 annual report of, . . 66 
 bonds of, . . . 64, 65 
 to supervise cleaning and repairs, 66 
 bills of sewer department, how paid, 66 
 consent of, required for sewer connec- 
 tions. . . . 66, 67, 72 
 to accompany report to council with 
 
 map, etc., . . .67 
 
 compensation of, . . 62, 65 
 
 to report monthly to council, . 65
 
 134 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 Sewer commissioners, contracts for labor and material, how 
 
 made, . . . .13 
 
 clerk of, salary, ... 62 
 
 to require permit for digging up streets, 67 
 
 Sewers, steam or air forced in, ... 66 
 
 city surveyor to make annual report as to, . 12 
 
 connection with, to be made before paving streets, 70 
 connections with from adjacent streets, permits for, 67 
 estimate of expense of, to accompany recommend- 
 ations for, . . . . .66 
 
 Shavings, straw, hay, etc., endangering property, a nuisance, 51 
 Sheriff, city, bond of, . . . . .64 
 
 when to warn city and common council meetings, 47 
 
 salary of, . . . . . .62 
 
 Shuttle Meadow lake, boating and fishing prohibited in, 93 
 
 Sidewalks and gutters, when to be paid for from street im- 
 provement fund, . . 77 
 horse or other animal on, a nuisance, . 49 
 driving horse across at gait faster than a walk, 
 
 a nuisance, . v . . . .49 
 
 assembling idly and remaining in crowds on, a 
 'nuisance, . . . . .50 
 
 snow and ice on, . . . 57, 73 
 
 unlicensed trade on, a nuisance, . . 50 
 
 defects in, complaints concerning, etc., . 69, 71, 72 
 
 defective, claims on account of, 5 
 
 encroachments upon, ... 49 
 
 obstructions, prohibited, . . .71 
 
 penalty for not filling openings, etc., in, 72 
 
 Signs across sidewalks, without permit, a nuisance, 50, 72 
 
 Sinking fund committee, how constituted, and duties of, 8 
 
 use of funds of, how limited, . . 8 
 
 Sleds, sliding down hill on, when and where a nuisance, 51 
 
 Sleeping rooms, see health.
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. 135 
 
 Sleigh bells, driving without, a nuisance. . . 50 
 
 Smoke-pipes entering flues, how guarded, . 21 
 
 Snow and ice, see also sidewalks, ... 73 
 
 on sidewalks to be removed at owner's ex- 
 pense, or occupant, ... 73 
 Special meetings, of city and common council, how called, 47 
 Stables, and barns, lights, etc., in, . . 31 
 Standing rules of council, .... 101 to 104 
 
 Station house, in charge of chief of police, . . 54 
 
 Stationery, required by city surveyor, how furnished, . 12 
 
 see also, supplies. 
 Steam, in sewers, . . . . . .66 
 
 Streets, ordinances concerning, . . 68 to 77 
 
 excavations in, . . ' . 71 
 
 building, gate, or fence, or playing ball in, a nui- 
 sance, 49, 51 
 building materials in, how guarded, penalty, . 74 
 digging up or obstructing, penalty, . 71, 72, 73 
 fire-crackers, fire-works, and bonfires in, . 32 
 connecting property with pipes in, penalty. . 72 
 erection and maintenance of signs, not permitted in, 72 
 erection of posts in, penalty, . . .72 
 opening of, penalty, . . . . 73 
 
 snow and ice on walks of, ... 73 
 
 grades to be changed only by order of common 
 
 council, . . . 74 
 
 neglect to make or pave sidewalk, or gutter in, 
 
 lien, . . 74, 75 
 
 digging up of, . 67 
 
 accepted, when, . . . . .74 
 
 crosswalks, when ordered in, . . 75 
 
 curb, required, ..... 75 
 
 hearings required, ... 75 
 
 paving, other than macadam. . . 75, 76
 
 136 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 Streets, notice signed by mayor or city clerk, . . 75 
 
 report, referred to board, . . . .76 
 
 assessments of benefits and damages, . . 76 
 
 proportion of cost, borne by property owner abut- 
 ting, 76, 77 
 opening or laying out, without consent, penalty, 73 
 refusing to fill excavations, or remove obstructions 
 
 in, penalty, . . . . .72 
 
 depositing offal, dead animals in, etc., a nuisance, 49 
 
 mortar beds, and building materials in, a nuisance, 50 
 city surveyor to make annual report concerning im- 
 provements in, . . . .12 
 defective, claims on account of, 6 
 defects in, repairs of, complaints concerning, etc., 69, 70 
 blocking of, by railroad companies, , . 67 
 committee on, duties of, . . . 5, 68 to 77 
 chairman of, salary of, . . 62 
 labor account, how paid, . . . 62, 71 
 venders, to have a license, . . .84 
 scales of, to be inspected, . . 87 
 bonds, city authorized to issue, see special acts of 
 
 Conn., 1895, pp. 396-7. 
 
 assessments, benefits not to exceed damages and 
 costs, to be paid to and from street improvement 
 fund, ... 77, 78 
 
 excavating or obstructing, prohibited, penalty, 71, 72 
 
 excavating paved, without permit, penalty for, 
 excavations and obstructions of, bond to be given, 
 encroachments on, a nuisance, 
 obstructions of, a nuisance, 
 
 when paved, property owners to connect with sew- 
 ers, etc., liens, .... 
 injuring, by water, prohibited, 
 pouring garbage on, prohibited, 
 obstructions in, lamps to be placed at, penalty, 
 vending on, a nuisance,
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. 137 
 
 Streets, ordinances concerning streets, . . 68 to 77 
 
 commissioner, election, term of office, and bond, 69 
 
 duties and compensation, 7, 62, 69 to 77 
 
 resisting, when a nuisance, . 50 
 
 to inform city clerk of claims due 
 
 city, . 7 
 
 bills of, to be approved by street 
 
 commiteee, . . . 4, 5 
 
 contracts for labor and material by, 
 
 how made, . . . 13, 14 
 
 to keep streets free of nuisances, 69 
 
 to prescribe manner of moving 
 
 buildings, . . .70 
 
 to make provisional contracts, 70 
 
 to pay workmen, when, . . 71 
 
 when to remove ice and snow, . 73 
 
 commissioners, duties, salaries of, . 62, 68 
 
 clerk of, salary, . . 62, 68 
 
 compensation, . . 62, 68 
 
 notice of hearing, . . 69 
 
 proceedings in assessment of dam- 
 ages and benefits by, .. 68, 69 
 to assess benefits for sewer connec- 
 tions from adjacent street, . 68 
 department, workmen of, auditor to pay weekly, 63, 71 
 impovement fund, treasurer to report annually con- 
 cerning, .... 78 
 improvement fund, object of, . . 77 to 78 
 ordinances concerning, 77 7 8 
 cost of walks, etc., 77 
 receipts, . 7^ 
 benefits and damages, 78 
 lighting, ordinances concerning, . 78, 79 
 apparatus, penalty for injuring, 79 
 committee, duties of, , , 78, 79
 
 138 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 Streets, lighting, committee to keep a record, . 79 
 
 to make a map of lights, . 79 
 
 lamps designated, . 79 
 under control of committee on, subject to 
 
 council, . . 78 
 
 lights, policemen to report as to, 57 
 Substitute judge, see city court. 
 
 Superintendent of electrical department, ordinance concern- 
 ing, . 35 to 37 
 appointment of, . . -35 
 removal of, how, . 35 
 duties of, .... 35 
 to inspect buildings, . 36 
 to remove wires, ... 36 
 may be member of fire department, 36 
 salary of, ... 36, 63 
 permit to be obtained . 36 
 to stop work until permit is obtained, 37 
 to regulate wires across highway, . 37 
 Supplies, ordinances concerning, . . 80 
 supplies, order blanks, . . 80 
 other than office supplies, . . 80 
 when bills not binding, . . 80 
 furnished by commissioners, cause for removal, 99 
 committee on, authority to make contracts, . 3 
 office, how contracted for and distributed, . 80 
 Surveyor, city ordinance concerning, . . n, 12 
 to have custody of maps, etc., . . n 
 to designate street lines, . . . 1 1 
 vacancy, how filled, . . . 1 1 
 bond of, . . . . .12, 64 
 compensation of, . . 12, 62 
 office rent of, . . . ,12 
 assistant of and salary, . . . 12 
 how and when elected, and term of office, , 1 1
 
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 Surveyor, duties of, . . . . . u, 12 
 
 to keep a field book, . . . .n 
 
 to make annual report to council, . . 12 
 
 Subway, ordinances concerning, . . . 96 to 99 
 
 wires to be placed in conduits, . . 97, 98 
 
 rentals, amount of, .... 98 
 
 rules and regulations, ... 98 
 
 penalty, failure to place wires in conduits, . 98 
 
 pay of laborers, .... 98, 99 
 
 contracts approved by common council, . 97 
 
 salaries of, .... 62, 97 
 
 clerk of, salary, . . . . 63, 97 
 
 bonds of, .... 64, 97 
 
 recommendation of bids and proposals for con- 
 struction, or other work, to be ratified by council, 97 
 commissioners, appointment, . . 96 
 
 vacancies, how filled, . . 96 
 
 to be trustees of funds and certifi- 
 cates of debt, . . .96 
 attend to construction, . 97 
 have supervision, . . .97 
 keep records of acts, . 97 
 make report to common council, 97 
 Swine, keeping of, when a nuisance, ... 48 
 
 Tax rate bill maker, oath, compensation, . 62, 82 
 
 collector to report back taxes, ... 83 
 
 to report delinquent tax payer, . . 83 
 
 to pay treasurer, . . . .83 
 
 Taxes, ordinances concerning, . . . 81 to 83 
 
 levied on last town assessment list, . . 81 
 
 abatement of, ..... 82 
 
 uncollected to be reported by auditor, . . 82
 
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 Teachers to report cases of contagious diseases, . . 41 
 
 \ 
 Tie vote, . . 104 
 
 Trade, unlicensed, on sidewalks, a nuisance, . 50 
 
 ordinances concerning, , . 84 to 89 
 
 license required in, ... 84, 85 
 
 in rags, etc., fee, . . . . .86 
 
 keeping of gunpowder, ... 86 
 
 selling, " " . . . . .86 
 
 transportation, " . . . . 86 
 
 penalty, relating to gunpowder, . . .87 
 
 nitro glycerine or dynamite, license required and 
 
 how fixed, . . . . .87 
 
 sealer of weights and measures, apparatus, . 87 
 
 compensation of . 88 
 
 penalty, unlawful use of weights by, . . 88 
 
 sealer to visit all places to inspect scales of ped- 
 dlers, etc., ..... 88 
 
 to weigh hay and coal, . . . .89 
 
 in case of refusal to have hay and coal weighed, 
 
 penalty, ...... 90 
 
 to keep record, report fee, . . 90 
 
 police to assist, . . . . .90 
 
 penalty for hindering or obstructing, . 90 
 
 Treasurer, city, salary of, . . . .61 
 
 auditor's order, when necessary for, v . 3 
 
 order of, paying orders and receipts for money 
 
 received, ..... 4 
 
 member of sinking fund committee, . . 8 
 
 receipt given to city clerk, etc., . . 4 
 
 report of, on street improvement fund, . 78 
 
 to report to committee on finance each month, 7 
 
 Treasury, city, money for permits to be paid into, . 23 
 
 Tree, shrub, or plant, injuring, a nuisance, . . 50 
 
 Trespassing, in gardens and yards, . . 49, 50
 
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 Vacancies in office, when, how, and by whom filled, n, 14, 96 
 
 Vehicles, see also public conveyance. 
 
 ordinances concerning, . . . 67, 68 
 
 stoppage of, in emergency, penalty, . 67, 68 
 
 stationary, on crosswalks, a nuisance, . 49 
 
 owner's name, number of license and rates of fare, 
 
 how displayed on, .... 60 
 
 Venders of goods on public streets, require license, pen- 
 alty, 84, 85, 86 
 licensed by State, . . . .85 
 
 Voting, members of council excused from, . . 104 
 
 W 
 
 Waiting stand for public carnages, ... 60 
 
 Walks, see sidewalks. 
 
 Walls, see buildings, fire district. 
 
 Warrants, for city and common council meetings, . 47 
 
 for collector of rate bill, ... 82 
 
 Wash, or dirty water, when a nuisance, . . .49 
 
 Water, ordinances concerning, . . . 91 to 94 
 
 commissioner, acting, duties and compensation, 62, 91 
 to act as clerk of board, . 91 
 
 board of, chairman of, salary and 
 
 bonds, . . 62, 64, 91 
 
 powers and duties, 13, 64, 91, 92, 93, 94 
 annual report of, . . 91 
 
 bonds and compensation of, 62, 64, 65, 91 
 written consent of, when required, 92, 93 
 may shut off water, when, penalty, 
 
 92, 93 94 
 
 to enforce ordinance prohibiting 
 boating and fishing at Shuttle 
 Meadow, . . -93
 
 142 ORDINANCE INDEX. 
 
 Water, commissioner, and employees exempt . . 93 
 chairman of, to be acting commis- 
 sioner, . . . . 91 
 clerk of, salary, . . 62, 91 
 contracts for labor and materials by, 
 
 how made, . . .13 
 to be judges of waste of water, 92 
 hydrants, penalty for opening or obstructing, . 94 
 penalty for letting on water shut off by commission- 
 ers, 93 
 waste of, penalty, . . . . 92 
 using or introducing, without consent of commis- 
 sioners, . . . . . 92 
 to require permit to dig up streets, laying water main 
 
 outside city limits, and in unaccepted streets, 94 
 
 to see that ordinances are enforced, . . 94 
 
 Water mains, petitions for, how acted upon, . . 94 
 
 Weights and measures, inspection and sealing, . 87, 88, 89 
 
 unsealed, penalty for using, . . 88 
 
 additional inspection of, expense of, . 87 
 
 fraudulent, penalty for using, . 88 
 
 sealer of, appointment and duties of, 
 
 . 87, 88, 89, 90 
 
 to visit markets, etc., . . 88 
 
 assistance of, by police, . 90 
 
 penalty for obstructing, . . 90 
 compensation, . . -63, 88 
 
 to enter buildings when, . . g8 
 
 to weigh hay and coal, . . 89 
 
 refusing, penalty for, . . 90 
 
 to keep records, . . 90 
 
 reports, and fee of,. . . 90 
 
 Wires, dead, to be removed, 36, 37 
 
 dangerous and defective, to be remedied, . 36, 37 
 
 parties to remove dangerous and defective, . 36
 
 ORDINANCE INDEX. 143 
 
 Wires, parties refusing to comply, to be reported, . 36 
 
 in buildings, permit required, ... 36 
 
 not to be put up without permit, . . . 37 
 not to cross public highway less than twenty-one feet 
 
 in height, 37 
 
 to be placed in conduits, ( subway ), . 97 
 
 Wooden buildings, see buildings, 
 
 Woodwork, to be separated from chimneys, etc., . 20 
 
 Yeas and nays, see rules, . . . . 103
 
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